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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 does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?
(a) Pairs are a human construct.
(b) Pairs are rare in nature but common in society.
(c) Pairs are common if your criteria are simple.
(d) Many phenomena occur in pairs.

2. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Randomness.
(c) Exhaustive subdivision.
(d) Irrational exuberance.

3. Why might segregation result without discrimination?
(a) Areas might have been populated during successive waves of immigration.
(b) Areas might be historically aligned with one group or another.
(c) Either of two groups might want to be the majority in an area.
(d) A city might have built housing for foreign refugees of war or famine.

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

5. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?
(a) Once they saw that the vaccine worked, mothers couldn't get enough of it for their children.
(b) Nothing could convince a certain percentage of the population to get vaccinated.
(c) When measles began to disappear, mothers would stop having their babies vaccinated, and the disease would come back.
(d) Arranging to have children vaccinated meant negotiating with the oldest people in the villages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?

2. What does Schelling say is important in economics?

3. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?

4. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

5. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

2. What does Schelling say is the consequence of inadequate analysis of participants in an economic system?

3. How does Schelling say technology has changed the number of genetic outcomes that can result when a man and a woman conceive?

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

5. What does Schelling say segregation and separation, sharing and mixing have in common?

6. What are some of the other traits Schelling says parents might be able to choose in the future?

7. According to Schelling, what is not included in his model of integration and segregation?

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

9. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?

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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