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

2. How does Schelling account for people's decision to join the majority or follow their own path?
(a) He says that to join the majority is hard-wired into people.
(b) Whether to join the majority is not always the most important factor.
(c) He says that it depends on the reasonableness of the behavior.
(d) He says that people will follow certain individuals, not "the mass."

3. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?
(a) Joining a self-restraining coalition.
(b) The democratic process.
(c) Joining the decision of the majority.
(d) Doing one's own thing.

4. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?
(a) As a static system.
(b) As a closed system.
(c) As a transformative system.
(d) As an open system.

5. What does Schelling say the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?
(a) Individuals suffer the effects of what is really mass behavior.
(b) Irrational behavior resulting in intelligible trends.
(c) Many chaotic events assuming order as they are narrated.
(d) Aggregate behaviors influenced by individual decisions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What second example does Schelling use to demonstrate a closed system with a density enhancement?

2. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?

3. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

4. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?

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

(see the answer key)

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