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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 explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?
(a) Reciprocal behavior.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Historical guilt.
(d) Race hatred.

2. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?
(a) The system of America's universities which produced scientists.
(b) The system of technical knowledge itself.
(c) The system of America's space agencies.
(d) The system of America's military defense industry.

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

4. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(b) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.
(c) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.
(d) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.

5. What does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?
(a) Individual incentives.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Fear of punishment.
(d) Political environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

2. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?

3. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?

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

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 is the lemons model?

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

3. What distinction does Schelling draw between decisions other people have made?

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

5. What would be the consequence of parents preferring boys to girls, in Schelling's analysis?

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

7. What are the two important components of idealized models of integration and segregation, in Schelling's analysis?

8. How does Schelling say human systems differ from natural systems?

9. How does Schelling describe nuclear weapons in his final chapter?

10. What is the critical-mass model?

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