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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. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?
(a) Something that cannot be stopped once it begins.
(b) Something that can only take place if there is a large audience to watch it.
(c) Something that becomes self-sustaining once a certain number of people start to do it.
(d) Something that has to be restarted after a certain interval.

2. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?
(a) Political analysis.
(b) Quantitative analysis.
(c) Historical analysis.
(d) Qualitative analysis.

3. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
(a) Trapped among people similar to themselves.
(b) Happy if members of another race do not outnumber them.
(c) Happy if they are the vast majority.
(d) Apprehensive about the future if there is a chance that other ethnicities might take over.

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

5. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?
(a) Commons.
(b) Critical mass.
(c) Lemons.
(d) Self-fulfilling prophecy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say the segregation/integration model identify in addition to population concerns?

3. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?

4. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?

5. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?

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