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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 Hardin based his research on?
(a) Ethnic populations moving into new neighborhoods.
(b) People selling cars.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Cows grazing.

2. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?
(a) As a self-displacing prophecy.
(b) As a critical mass.
(c) As a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) As a self-enforcing convention.

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

4. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Narrative.
(b) Profit and loss.
(c) Income and economic growth.
(d) Accounting statements.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?

2. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?

3. What does Schelling say is important in economics?

4. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?

5. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What natural preference does Schelling say leads to segregation of populations in American cities?

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

5. How does Schelling define equilibrium?

6. How is nuclear arms control a self-fulfilling prophecy, in Schelling's analysis/

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

8. What behavior does discrimination allow Schelling to model?

9. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

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

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