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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 "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(b) Political change.
(c) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.
(d) Dust being drizzles onto scales.

2. What does Schelling say about the results of segregation and integration models?
(a) They have gravitas.
(b) They are interesting.
(c) They can be deceptive.
(d) They are occasionally statistically useful.

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 are admirable.
(c) That they are pernicious.
(d) That they compel amazement, but not admiration.

4. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?
(a) One third of the number of bikes bought new.
(b) The number of bikes reported stolen.
(c) The number of bikes that cannot be fixed each year.
(d) The number of bikes not reported stolen.

5. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?
(a) Driving home the long way to avoid the highway.
(b) Taking a friend of another race to dinner.
(c) Shopping in a store that has fresh produce.
(d) Buying a foreign car because it has good gas mileage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?

2. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?

3. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

4. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?

5. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

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