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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. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(b) They are socially outcast.
(c) They are will be last to leave.
(d) They can see and hear better.

2. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?
(a) Buying a foreign car because it has good gas mileage.
(b) Driving home the long way to avoid the highway.
(c) Shopping in a store that has fresh produce.
(d) Taking a friend of another race to dinner.

3. What does Schelling say the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?
(a) Many chaotic events assuming order as they are narrated.
(b) Aggregate behaviors influenced by individual decisions.
(c) Individuals suffer the effects of what is really mass behavior.
(d) Irrational behavior resulting in intelligible trends.

4. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A form of accounting.
(b) A hypothetical explanation of individual's motives.
(c) A precise statement of a set of relationships.
(d) A flow chart.

5. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A thermostat.
(b) A boiler.
(c) A heating fan.
(d) A pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

2. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

3. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?

4. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

5. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What limitations does Schelling describe that restrict the effect of economic analysis of social behaviors?

2. How many possible genetic variations can result when two people have a baby together?

3. How does Schelling define equilibrium?

4. What would the demographic consequences be, if parents could select the traits of their children?

5. What factors does Schelling say social scientists have to account for in models of human behavior?

6. What are the two important components of idealized models of integration and segregation, in Schelling's analysis?

7. What kinds of subliminal factors does Schelling say affect people's decisions of where to sit?

8. What issues does Schelling describe surrounding the question of raising the draft age in the U.S.?

9. What is an externality?

10. What is a semi-closed system?

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