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

Short Answer Questions

1. What choice does Schelling say eugenics gave parents?

2. How many possibilities does Schelling say social scientists have to account for when charting binary choice?

3. What does Schelling say about offspring?

4. What U.S. President decided not to use nuclear weapons in Kuwait?

5. What was the status of nuclear weapons under Kennedy and Johnson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Tolerance is a desirable quality to identify in an economic model of behavior, but how would you define the value of tolerance in Schelling's models of integration? What would you know it by? What factors would indicate a 'tolerant' neighborhood or society?

Essay Topic 3

What do Schelling's models of human behavior tell us about human nature? Do they tell us different things about individuals than they tell us about society? Do they delve into psychology, or are they still essentially economic in nature?

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