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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 about an equilibrium division of the population?
(a) It will give us a working model of social mobility
(b) It will not produce optimal results.
(c) It will not give us a working model of emigration.
(d) It will give us a working model of emigration.

2. How does Schelling predict nations will behave with regard to nuclear arms control?
(a) If one leads the others will follow.
(b) If arms are limited, other weapons will experience arms races.
(c) If there are terrorists anywhere in the world, nations will still maintain nuclear arsenals.
(d) If one decides to limit arms, the price of arms will go up.

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

4. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?
(a) Median longevity might increase.
(b) Left-handedness might disappear.
(c) Median IQ might increase.
(d) Median size might increase.

5. What is the source of the final chapter in Micromotives and Macrobehavior?
(a) Schelling's class lecture notes.
(b) Schelling's Nobel lecture.
(c) Schelling's Pulitzer lecture.
(d) Schelling's dissertation.

6. What does Schelling say economic models of human behavior consider?
(a) Variables.
(b) History.
(c) Practical truths.
(d) Values.

7. What is an externality?
(a) When additional factors change the terms of the binary choice.
(b) A factor that the social scientist has to include to balance the appearance of bias in his model.
(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 would be the downside to chromosomal modification?
(a) People could argue that traits result more from nurture.
(b) The concept of human-ness might be diminished.
(c) Parents would feel pressure to compete by giving their children the modification.
(d) Unforeseen medical problems might emerge.

9. Why does Schelling say the U.S. did not have to use nuclear weapons in Kuwait?
(a) They had promised the United Nations not to.
(b) They overwhelmed the Iraqis so easily.
(c) They were bound by treaty not to.
(d) They did not find weapons of mass destruction there.

10. Why does Schelling say hockey players resist wearing helmets, when they already know they are safer?
(a) Helmets are cumbersome.
(b) They resist the hockey leagues' authority.
(c) They didn't wear helmets when they learned to play as kids.
(d) Vanity.

11. What does Schelling say the British argued with the American when he was deciding whether to use the bomb?
(a) Not to use it.
(b) To use it on military targets.
(c) To use it in Germany.
(d) Not to deploy it a second time.

12. What does Schelling say about arms control?
(a) It is a self-defeating process.
(b) Is it self-assured destruction.
(c) It is a self-fulfilling process.
(d) It is a unilateral vulnerability.

13. What does Schelling say would be at risk in a culture where parents preferred male children?
(a) Religion.
(b) Cultural traditions.
(c) Monogamous marriage.
(d) Safety.

14. How many distinct eggs does Schelling say a woman can produce?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 180,000.
(c) 4 million.
(d) 8 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say are continuous variables?

2. What example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?

3. Who was the successor to the President who dropped the bomb?

4. What does Schelling say is the goal of a binary choice model?

5. How does Schelling arrive at the number of genetic possibilities in two people's offspring?

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