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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A boiler.
(b) A heating fan.
(c) A pipe.
(d) A thermostat.
2. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?
(a) Segregation is a healthy expression of discrimination.
(b) Segregation is actually a conglomeration of other unconscious motives.
(c) Discrimination only produces segregation where there is a critical mass.
(d) Some reasons transcend discrimination.
3. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) Musical chairs.
(b) The development and use of language.
(c) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(d) Rumors circulating.
4. How does Schelling say people are segregated?
(a) By college major and degree.
(b) By their preference for Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
(c) By sex and age.
(d) By income and heritage.
5. 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) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(b) Improved distribution modeling.
(c) Room for more factors to be included.
(d) Predictive accuracy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Schelling say the government might do to correct the imbalance of male and female babies?
2. What does Schelling say is the importance of segregation and integration models?
3. What does Schelling say would be the result of his hypothetical case?
4. How can one gather information about the choice of the majority, in Schelling's example?
5. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?
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