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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 economic models of human behavior consider?
(a) History.
(b) Variables.
(c) Practical truths.
(d) Values.

2. What does Schelling say is the goal of a binary choice model?
(a) To accurately characterize the influential factors.
(b) To expand the possibilities.
(c) To reach equilibrium.
(d) To limit the possibilities.

3. What does Schelling say would a density enhancement add to a closed model? Improved distribution modeling. Room for more factors to be included. Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(a) Improved distribution modeling.
(b) Predictive accuracy.
(c) Room for more factors to be included.
(d) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.

4. What example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?
(a) Distribution for local co-op market.
(b) Distribution for a nursing home.
(c) Distribution for a highway toll system.
(d) Distribution for a university.

5. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?
(a) The benefits of the vaccine.
(b) The consequences of not being vaccinated.
(c) Who else is vaccinating their children.
(d) How often the vaccination services are available.

6. What does Schelling say would be the downside to chromosomal modification?
(a) Parents would feel pressure to compete by giving their children the modification.
(b) Unforeseen medical problems might emerge.
(c) The concept of human-ness might be diminished.
(d) People could argue that traits result more from nurture.

7. What is a binary choice?
(a) A paradox.
(b) A lose-lose situation.
(c) A question of which thing of two things goes first.
(d) An either/or situation.

8. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?
(a) People will stay until they move to nursing homes.
(b) People over 90 will stay to be part of the group.
(c) Everyone under 25 and over 70 will move out.
(d) Everyone under 35 and everyone over 65 will move out.

9. Who was the successor to the President who dropped the bomb?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Truman.
(d) Roosevelt.

10. What does Schelling say about the results of segregation and integration models?
(a) They can be deceptive.
(b) They have gravitas.
(c) They are occasionally statistically useful.
(d) They are interesting.

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

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

13. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Morality and ethics.
(b) Ethnicity, mobility and community.
(c) Heritage and culture.
(d) Age, income and marital status.

14. What assumption does Schelling make about people's feelings about nuclear weapons?
(a) People universally abhor them.
(b) People universally need them as deterrents.
(c) People universally see them as humanity's salvation.
(d) People are tormented about loving and loathing them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say might disappear if parents had the ability to choose their children's traits?

2. What does Schelling say would be at risk in a culture where parents preferred male children?

3. What does Schelling say about binary choices?

4. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?

5. What does Schelling say the "open model" represent?

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