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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 social scientists consider in behavior modeling?
(a) Fear of punishment.
(b) Individual incentives.
(c) The collective unconscious.
(d) Political environment.

2. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?
(a) Not to sit next to anyone.
(b) Not to sit near funny-looking people.
(c) Not to sit in front.
(d) Not to sit in the back.

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 has to be restarted after a certain interval.
(c) Something that cannot be stopped once it begins.
(d) Something that can only take place if there is a large audience to watch it.

4. What does Schelling say are continuous variables?
(a) Associations, memberships, and career.
(b) Sex, race and religion.
(c) History, ethnicity and tradition.
(d) Age, income and IQ.

5. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.
(b) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(c) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.
(d) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

2. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?

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

4. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?

5. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?

(see the answer key)

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