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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 a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?
(a) Arranging to have children vaccinated meant negotiating with the oldest people in the villages.
(b) Nothing could convince a certain percentage of the population to get vaccinated.
(c) Once they saw that the vaccine worked, mothers couldn't get enough of it for their children.
(d) When measles began to disappear, mothers would stop having their babies vaccinated, and the disease would come back.

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

3. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Raising the drinking age.
(b) Lowering the drinking age.
(c) Ending the draft.
(d) Raising the draft age.

4. What else does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?
(a) Philosophical preferences.
(b) Ethnic conflicts.
(c) Collective results.
(d) Religious history.

5. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Photosynthesis.
(d) Evolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

3. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?

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

5. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How many possible genetic variations can result when two people have a baby together?

3. What is one consequence Schelling describes of parents being able to choose the sex of their children?

4. What experience got Schelling thinking about distribution?

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

6. What is the lemons model?

7. What behavior does discrimination allow Schelling to model?

8. What is an externality?

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

10. What is the critical-mass model?

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