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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 social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.
(b) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.
(c) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(d) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.

2. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) History.
(b) Paranormal psychology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Psychology.

3. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(b) The imp of the perverse.
(c) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(d) The sum of the dependent variables.

4. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are socially outcast.
(b) They can see and hear better.
(c) They are will be last to leave.
(d) They are forced to be watched by the others.

5. What does Schelling say about discrimination?
(a) It is generally accepted.
(b) It is a paradox.
(c) It is not necessarily malicious.
(d) It is always offensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

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

3. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?

4. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

5. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Schelling mean when he says that certain behaviors have the character of mathematical "identical truisms"?

2. What is an externality?

3. What are the nine ways Schelling describes by which propositions can be constrained successfully?

4. What kinds of subliminal factors does Schelling say affect people's decisions of where to sit?

5. What is a binary choice?

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

7. How does Schelling say technology has changed the number of genetic outcomes that can result when a man and a woman conceive?

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

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

10. Which U.S. presidents' decisions about nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?

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