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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Sorting and Mixing: Age and Income.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Narrative.
(b) Accounting statements.
(c) Profit and loss.
(d) Income and economic growth.

2. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?
(a) Boys and girls.
(b) Individual and mass.
(c) Fish and fowl.
(d) American and European.

3. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Lag time.
(b) Latent resistances.
(c) Unexpected results.
(d) Hidden variables.

4. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?
(a) Historical guilt.
(b) Race hatred.
(c) Jim Crow laws.
(d) Reciprocal behavior.

5. What is an example of a prediction which Schelling says closed system modeling cannot make?
(a) People who want to live near family will act on other preferences, like not living near shopping malls.
(b) People will not settle in one place, but they will keep searching for places that meet different needs.
(c) People who don't like dogs don't necessarily dislike dog owners.
(d) People who want to live with people of the same race generally like their neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

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

3. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?

4. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

5. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

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