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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 is the best use of sorting and mixing models?
(a) Free markets.
(b) Residence or membership.
(c) Population and food supply.
(d) Marriage and evolution.

2. What does Schelling say about discrimination?
(a) It is a paradox.
(b) It is generally accepted.
(c) It is not necessarily malicious.
(d) It is always offensive.

3. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) It depends on how many people he knows.
(b) As many as others make.
(c) As many as he makes.
(d) It depends on his personality.

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

5. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(b) They are socially outcast.
(c) They can see and hear better.
(d) They are will be last to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?

2. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination can lead to?

4. What does Schelling say about the results of segregation and integration models?

5. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?

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