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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 ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?
(a) Not to sit near funny-looking people.
(b) Not to sit next to anyone.
(c) Not to sit in the back.
(d) Not to sit in front.
2. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(b) He says it might be a learned process.
(c) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(d) He says it might be random.
3. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) It is necessary.
(b) ItIt is inevitable.
(c) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.
(d) It can be fairly ordinary.
4. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(b) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(c) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(d) Theatres fill randomly.
5. What does Schelling say about a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?
(a) He says that the exchange is consistent with laws of capitalism.
(b) He says that the owner still has to pay overhead, so the exchange is equal.
(c) He says that the exchange replaces a real bicycle with abstract money.
(d) He says that the owner gains a profit of $60.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
2. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?
3. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
4. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?
5. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
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