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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 about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?
(a) That they are admirable.
(b) That they compel amazement, but not admiration.
(c) That, based on human nature, they are inevitable.
(d) That they are pernicious.

2. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) Rumors circulating.
(b) The development and use of language.
(c) Musical chairs.
(d) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.

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

4. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?
(a) Graphic designs.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Math.
(d) Computer architecture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say individuals react to?

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

3. What does Schelling say about segregation?

4. What does Schelling say discrimination is?

5. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Schelling define equilibrium?

3. What behavior does discrimination allow Schelling to model?

4. What natural preference does Schelling say leads to segregation of populations in American cities?

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

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

7. What is the commons model?

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

9. What hope does Schelling have for the future of nuclear weapons?

10. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

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