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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 ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?
(a) It is neither meaningful nor memorable.
(b) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.
(c) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(d) It is a common decision that people make the same way depending on where they are in the crowd.

2. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?
(a) A critical-mass model.
(b) A lemon model.
(c) A paradoxical process.
(d) A half-life model.

3. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) Because they are afraid of the front.
(b) Because they want to be able to leave.
(c) Because that's where the desirable people sit.
(d) Because it is darker there.

4. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill randomly.
(b) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(c) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(d) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?

2. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?

3. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?

4. What else does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?

5. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experience got Schelling thinking about distribution?

2. What is the commons model?

3. How does Schelling describe segregation?

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

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

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

7. Under what circumstances does Schelling say that chromosomal selection could be beneficial?

8. What is an externality?

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

10. In what way does Schelling say that individual and aggregate behavior are different?

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