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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. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) Because they are afraid of the front.
(b) Because it is darker there.
(c) Because that's where the desirable people sit.
(d) Because they want to be able to leave.

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

3. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?
(a) That, based on human nature, they are inevitable.
(b) That they compel amazement, but not admiration.
(c) That they are admirable.
(d) That they are pernicious.

4. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?
(a) Individual interest and collective purpose.
(b) Order and chaos.
(c) Violence and the threat of punishment.
(d) Desire and restraint.

5. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?
(a) People over 90 will stay to be part of the group.
(b) People will stay until they move to nursing homes.
(c) Everyone under 25 and over 70 will move out.
(d) Everyone under 35 and everyone over 65 will move out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?

2. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?

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

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

5. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

(see the answer key)

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