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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 case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Ending the draft.
(b) Raising the drinking age.
(c) Lowering the drinking age.
(d) Raising the draft age.

2. 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?
(a) Introduces randomness.
(b) Introduces tension and inequality.
(c) Introduces non-economic competition.
(d) Introduces uncertainty.

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

4. What does Schelling say about an equilibrium division of the population?
(a) It will give us a working model of social mobility
(b) It will not produce optimal results.
(c) It will give us a working model of emigration.
(d) It will not give us a working model of emigration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?

2. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

3. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

4. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

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

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