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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. How does Schelling describe discrimination?
(a) As a court of opinion and rumor.
(b) As the opposite of the free market.
(c) As a two-fold distinction.
(d) As an absolute preference.

2. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?
(a) Contingent behavior.
(b) Archetypal intelligence.
(c) Emotional intelligence.
(d) Anxiety of influence.

3. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) How much milk his cows are giving.
(b) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.
(c) Who will buy his milk.
(d) Who will take his milk to market.

4. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.
(b) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(c) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.
(d) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.

5. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to watch people arrive.
(b) People want to be prepared to flee.
(c) People want to be far from the stage.
(d) People want to feel safe in the dark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?

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

4. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

5. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do economic systems resemble ant colonies, in Schelling's analysis?

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

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

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

5. In what way does Schelling say that individual and aggregate behavior are different?

6. How does Schelling describe nuclear weapons in his final chapter?

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

8. Where does the equivalence of terms in an economic break down, in Schelling's analysis?

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

10. What does Schelling mean when he says that certain behaviors have the character of mathematical "identical truisms"?

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