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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 the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) An appropriate level.
(b) Emptiness.
(c) Relief from tension.
(d) Perpetual comfort.

2. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?
(a) Segregation is a healthy expression of discrimination.
(b) Segregation is actually a conglomeration of other unconscious motives.
(c) Discrimination only produces segregation where there is a critical mass.
(d) Some reasons transcend discrimination.

3. What does Schelling say about segregation?
(a) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.
(b) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(c) It is usually harmless.
(d) It is generally an emotional expression of the collective unconscious.

4. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) Who will buy his milk.
(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 take his milk to market.

5. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?
(a) Something that becomes self-sustaining once a certain number of people start to do it.
(b) Something that has to be restarted after a certain interval.
(c) Something that can only take place if there is a large audience to watch it.
(d) Something that cannot be stopped once it begins.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?

2. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

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

4. How does Schelling say people are segregated?

5. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

4. What are discrete variables and continuous variables?

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

6. What would be the consequence of parents preferring boys to girls, in Schelling's analysis?

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

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

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

10. How does Schelling describe segregation?

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