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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?

2. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?

3. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?

4. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?

5. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the open model, in Schelling's analysis?

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

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

6. What does Schelling say segregation and separation, sharing and mixing have in common?

7. What is the critical-mass model?

8. How many possible genetic variations can result when two people have a baby together?

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

10. What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Schelling's models seem to swing back and forth between literary metaphors and statistical methods. Is one predominant? Is one more or less reliable?

Essay Topic 2

Write a detailed review of Micromotives and Macrobehavior. What are the book's main themes and preoccupations? What are its methods? How does it achieve its intentions? Where does it fail to?

Essay Topic 3

Choose an event out of a newspaper or magazine, describe the primary model at work in it, and describe the underlying assumptions as well as the externalities and extra factors that are evident in the event.

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