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

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.
(a) Room for more factors to be included.
(b) Improved distribution modeling.
(c) Predictive accuracy.
(d) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.

3. What does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?
(a) An imposed division.
(b) An arbitray limit on the time period.
(c) A correction for young people.
(d) An additional regression model.

4. What factor does Schelling use as an example of what motivates adults in their distribution decisions?
(a) Living near people who also have small children.
(b) Living with people of the same race.
(c) Living near family.
(d) Living near people of the same age.

5. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to feel safe in the dark.
(b) People want to watch people arrive.
(c) People want to be far from the stage.
(d) People want to be prepared to flee.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

3. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

4. What does Schelling say about human desire?

5. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?

(see the answer key)

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