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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) Profit and loss.
(b) Accounting statements.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Income and economic growth.

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

3. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Be honest.
(b) Hide from unpleasant facts.
(c) Put themselves in good positions.
(d) Put others down.

4. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(b) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.
(c) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.
(d) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.

5. What does Schelling say is important in economics?
(a) Generalizations.
(b) Natural laws.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Individual behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?

2. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

3. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?

4. What does Schelling say economic models of human behavior consider?

5. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?

(see the answer key)

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