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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say might disappear if parents had the ability to choose their children's traits?
(a) Languages.
(b) Undesirable traits.
(c) Inequalities.
(d) Minority cultures.

2. What continuous variable does Schelling say parents could select for?
(a) Left versus right-handedness.
(b) Longevity.
(c) Eye color.
(d) Eyesight.

3. What is an unconditional preference?
(a) A force of psychological nature.
(b) A preference that has to be adopted by all members of a group.
(c) A preference that does not acknowledge other alternatives.
(d) A preference that does not change regardless of others' actions.

4. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?
(a) They are unreliable.
(b) They are constraining.
(c) They are discrete.
(d) They are continuous.

5. What does Schelling say about binary choices?
(a) Sometimes they are paradoxes.
(b) They are like life or death decisions.
(c) Everyone faces them at some point.
(d) They are the building blocks of economic modeling.

6. What does Schelling say about offspring?
(a) They will probably look like their mothers.
(b) They will probably look like their maternal grandfathers.
(c) They will probably look like their paternal grandmothers.
(d) They will probably look like their fathers.

7. What is an externality?
(a) A factor that the social scientist has to include to balance the appearance of bias in his model.
(b) When additional factors change the terms of the binary choice.
(c) When another person's actions affect your decision.
(d) A consequence unrelated to the choice, but one that proceeds from it and has to be considered.

8. What does Schelling say is the best use of sorting and mixing models?
(a) Population and food supply.
(b) Residence or membership.
(c) Free markets.
(d) Marriage and evolution.

9. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?
(a) Immunization.
(b) Chromosome selection.
(c) Community planning.
(d) Clairvoyance.

10. What does Schelling say would be the result of his hypothetical case?
(a) He says that there would likely be smaller communities in some cultures. He says that there would likely be larger communities in some cultures.
(b) He says that there would likely be larger communities in some cultures.
(c) He says that it would be impossible to know what would happen.
(d) He says that the outcome would depend on the sample size.

11. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?
(a) Whether people are only children.
(b) Whether people are vaccinated.
(c) What language people speak.
(d) How to dress for an office environment.

12. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?
(a) Changing attitudes toward them.
(b) Treaties regulating them.
(c) Evolving detonation technology.
(d) Their increasing power.

13. What was the status of nuclear weapons under Truman's successor?
(a) They became conventional weapons.
(b) They were classified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
(c) They were heavily regulated.
(d) They were banned.

14. What is the central issue in the case Schelling presents regarding hockey helmets?
(a) The reasonableness of the decision.
(b) The authority of the league.
(c) How many people make the choice.
(d) The validity of safety statistics.

15. What does Schelling say the "open model" represent?
(a) An even age distribution.
(b) A population model for gated communities.
(c) A model for mobility.
(d) A history of America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What discrete variable does Schelling say parents could select for?

2. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?

3. What hope does Schelling express for the future of nuclear arms?

4. What does Schelling say about the results of segregation and integration models?

5. What does Schelling say are continuous variables?

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