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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?
(a) Their increasing power.
(b) Changing attitudes toward them.
(c) Treaties regulating them.
(d) Evolving detonation technology.

2. Who was the successor to the President who dropped the bomb?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Truman.
(d) Kennedy.

3. What does Schelling say economic models of human behavior consider?
(a) Practical truths.
(b) Variables.
(c) History.
(d) Values.

4. What does Schelling say are discrete variables?
(a) History, ethnicity and tradition.
(b) Sex, race and religion.
(c) Height, weight and eye color.
(d) Education, certifications and career.

5. How many possibilities does Schelling say social scientists have to account for when charting binary choice?
(a) An infinite amount.
(b) Only two.
(c) Eight to sixteen.
(d) Many, but not an infinite amount.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?

2. How hockey players feel when the league makes helmets mandatory, in Schelling's analysis?

3. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?

4. What does Schelling say the segregation/integration model identify in addition to population concerns?

5. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?

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