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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 about the "closed model"?
(a) It considers more than age.
(b) It considers age alone.
(c) It predicts who will leave.
(d) It describes the factors that pull people out of a community.

2. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Faith.
(d) Certainty.

3. What does Schelling say the simplest model of a closed system with a density enhancement contains?
(a) Micropopulation numbers and statistical projections.
(b) Population numbers and historical date.
(c) Future forecasting predictions.
(d) Population numbers and individual preferences.

4. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Bunching behavior.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Group aversion.

5. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(b) He uses non-mathematical data.
(c) He publishes in different journals.
(d) He is involved in the life he is studying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

2. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?

3. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

4. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?

5. What does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?

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