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

2. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are better than average.
(b) They are unique.
(c) They are charismatic.
(d) They are average.

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

4. 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) An economic proposition.
(b) The acceleration principle.
(c) The transcendental relationship.
(d) A direct proportion.

5. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?
(a) Parasympathetic behavior.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Dread and awe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?

2. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?

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

4. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

5. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the critical-mass model?

3. In what way does a thermostat mirror the behaviors of many systems, in Schelling's analysis?

4. What methodological difficulty does Schelling see in a college where the population is 75% female, with a handful of black students?

5. What is the relationship between behaviors that can be modeled and free will, in Schelling's analysis?

6. What is a binary choice?

7. What factors does Schelling say social scientists have to account for in models of human behavior?

8. What is the key factor in the critical-mass model?

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

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

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