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

2. What does Schelling say are continuous variables?
(a) Sex, race and religion.
(b) History, ethnicity and tradition.
(c) Age, income and IQ.
(d) Associations, memberships, and career.

3. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Confidence that he is right.
(b) A plausible excuse.
(c) Deniability.
(d) Safety in numbers.

4. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.
(b) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.
(c) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(d) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.

5. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are will be last to leave.
(b) They are socially outcast.
(c) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(d) They can see and hear better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?

2. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?

3. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?

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

5. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

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