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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 example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?
(a) Fish and fowl.
(b) Boys and girls.
(c) Individual and mass.
(d) American and European.

2. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?
(a) Because tolls are designed to repair social inequality.
(b) Because the traffic reverses direction at the end of every day.
(c) Because people coming south have more money than people in the city.
(d) Because even one-way drivers will return one day.

3. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
(a) A direct proportion.
(b) The transcendental relationship.
(c) The acceleration principle.
(d) An economic proposition.

4. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Confidence that he is right.
(b) Safety in numbers.
(c) Deniability.
(d) A plausible excuse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?

2. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?

3. How does Schelling say people are segregated?

4. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?

5. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Schelling use mathematical formulations to express his economic models of behavior?

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

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

4. What does Schelling say the thermostat model seeks?

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

6. What issues does Schelling describe surrounding the question of raising the draft age in the U.S.?

7. What does Schelling say a closed model can be used for with regard to prospective college students?

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

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

10. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

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