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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 people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
(a) Happy if members of another race do not outnumber them.
(b) Apprehensive about the future if there is a chance that other ethnicities might take over.
(c) Trapped among people similar to themselves.
(d) Happy if they are the vast majority.

2. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) Their own stimuli.
(b) The desire of the mass.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) The fear of the mass.

3. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) It depends on his personality.
(b) It depends on how many people he knows.
(c) As many as others make.
(d) As many as he makes.

4. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Bunching behavior.
(b) Randomness.
(c) Group aversion.
(d) Chaos.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?

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

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

5. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is a binary choice?

7. What are discrete variables and continuous variables?

8. What is the open model, in Schelling's analysis?

9. What does Schelling say is the trigger for the decisions that lead to segregation?

10. In what way does Schelling say the shop owner's exchange of a bicycle for $150 of the customer's money--when the owner paid $90 for the bicycle--an equal exchange?

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