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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say would be the result of chromosomal selection that allowed parents to select for high-IQ children?
(a) The IQ range would yield a higher average IQ.
(b) The incidence of social problems would increase, since intelligence and maturity are different variables.
(c) Parents would not have to work because their children would make more money and support them.
(d) Schools would not have to keep children until sixteen years of age.

2. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(b) He says it might be a learned process.
(c) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(d) He says it might be random.

3. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?
(a) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.
(b) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(c) It is neither meaningful nor memorable.
(d) It is a common decision that people make the same way depending on where they are in the crowd.

4. Under what condition would the population not be constrained by a mathematical identity after the youngest ten percent of a population moved away?
(a) The people would still have to live within a reasonable distance.
(b) The remaining people would have to be the same age.
(c) The young people would not be able to come back for visits.
(d) The remaining people would have to fill in the work the youngest people had done.

5. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(b) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.
(c) Political change.
(d) Dust being drizzles onto scales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?

2. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?

3. What does the success of a binary choice model depend on, in Schelling's analysis?

4. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?

5. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?

(see the answer key)

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