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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 does Schelling say is the importance of segregation and integration models?
(a) They are useful in certain mathematical applications.
(b) They help us build conceptual models of more complex behavior like dating and marriage.
(c) They identify an important phenomenon.
(d) They provide the tools for influencing population distribution

2. Why does Schelling say hockey players resist wearing helmets, when they already know they are safer?
(a) They didn't wear helmets when they learned to play as kids.
(b) Helmets are cumbersome.
(c) Vanity.
(d) They resist the hockey leagues' authority.

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

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

5. What does Schelling say about the number of genetic variations that can take place when a man and a woman have a baby?
(a) The number is limited by the parents' genes.
(b) The number is vast.
(c) The number is limited by the parents' social class.
(d) The number is limited by the parents' environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?

2. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?

3. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?

4. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?

5. What choice does Schelling say eugenics gave parents?

(see the answer key)

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