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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 the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?
(a) Many chaotic events assuming order as they are narrated.
(b) Aggregate behaviors influenced by individual decisions.
(c) Individuals suffer the effects of what is really mass behavior.
(d) Irrational behavior resulting in intelligible trends.

2. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Group dynamics.
(b) Spatial distribution.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Economic theories of entertainment.

3. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?
(a) Segregation is a healthy expression of discrimination.
(b) Segregation is actually a conglomeration of other unconscious motives.
(c) Some reasons transcend discrimination.
(d) Discrimination only produces segregation where there is a critical mass.

4. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?
(a) False perceptions.
(b) Economic inequality.
(c) Historical enmity.
(d) Past injustices.

5. What does Schelling say discrimination is?
(a) Willingness to be biased.
(b) Preference for one race over another.
(c) Refusal to consider reason in a decision.
(d) Conscious awareness of a choice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?

2. What does Schelling say would a density enhancement add to a closed model? Improved distribution modeling. Room for more factors to be included. Relief from certain mathematical constraints.

3. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?

4. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?

5. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?

(see the answer key)

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