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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 example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?
(a) Distribution for a nursing home.
(b) Distribution for a highway toll system.
(c) Distribution for a university.
(d) Distribution for local co-op market.

2. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?
(a) A critical-mass model.
(b) A half-life model.
(c) A paradoxical process.
(d) A lemon model.

3. What does Schelling say about binary choices?
(a) They are the building blocks of economic modeling.
(b) Sometimes they are paradoxes.
(c) They are like life or death decisions.
(d) Everyone faces them at some point.

4. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) As many as he makes.
(b) It depends on his personality.
(c) As many as others make.
(d) It depends on how many people he knows.

5. Why might segregation result without discrimination?
(a) Areas might have been populated during successive waves of immigration.
(b) Either of two groups might want to be the majority in an area.
(c) Areas might be historically aligned with one group or another.
(d) A city might have built housing for foreign refugees of war or famine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

2. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?

3. What factor does Schelling use as an example of what motivates adults in their distribution decisions?

4. What does Schelling say would be the result of his hypothetical case?

5. How many distinct sperm does Schelling say a man can produce?

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