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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.
(b) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(c) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.
(d) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.

2. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?
(a) Something that has to be restarted after a certain interval.
(b) Something that cannot be stopped once it begins.
(c) Something that becomes self-sustaining once a certain number of people start to do it.
(d) Something that can only take place if there is a large audience to watch it.

3. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(b) The invisible hand of the market.
(c) Rhetoric of equality.
(d) Definition of terms.

4. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Safety in numbers.
(b) Confidence that he is right.
(c) A plausible excuse.
(d) Deniability.

5. How does Schelling say people are segregated?
(a) By college major and degree.
(b) By sex and age.
(c) By income and heritage.
(d) By their preference for Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

2. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

3. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

4. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?

5. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an externality?

2. What is the relationship between behaviors that can be modeled and free will, in Schelling's analysis?

3. What is a closed model, in Schelling's analysis?

4. What example does Schelling use to illustrate an externality?

5. What experience got Schelling thinking about distribution?

6. What behavior does discrimination allow Schelling to model?

7. What distinction does Schelling draw between decisions other people have made?

8. What factors influence how effective a proposition is, in Schelling's analysis?

9. Under what circumstances does Schelling say that chromosomal selection could be beneficial?

10. What methodological difficulty does Schelling see in a college where the population is 75% female, with a handful of black students?

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