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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 the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?
(a) Modeling the undesirability of the decision being weighed.
(b) Defining the number that will constitute the critical mass.
(c) Articulating the fears that surround the decision in the collective unconscious.
(d) Knowing why people delay their decisions.

2. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) An appropriate level.
(b) Perpetual comfort.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Relief from tension.

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

4. What does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?
(a) A correction for young people.
(b) An additional regression model.
(c) An arbitray limit on the time period.
(d) An imposed division.

5. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Group dynamics.
(b) Economic theories of entertainment.
(c) Spatial distribution.
(d) Randomness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the "open model" represent?

2. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?

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

4. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

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

(see the answer key)

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