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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 individuals react to?
(a) The collective unconscious.
(b) The fear of the mass.
(c) The desire of the mass.
(d) Their own stimuli.

2. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be random.
(b) He says it might be a learned process.
(c) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(d) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.

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

4. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A pipe.
(b) A thermostat.
(c) A boiler.
(d) A heating fan.

5. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(b) Definition of terms.
(c) The invisible hand of the market.
(d) Rhetoric of equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?

2. What else does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?

3. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?

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

5. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?

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