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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. Under what condition would the population not be constrained by a mathematical identity after the youngest ten percent of a population moved away?
(a) The remaining people would have to fill in the work the youngest people had done.
(b) The young people would not be able to come back for visits.
(c) The people would still have to live within a reasonable distance.
(d) The remaining people would have to be the same age.

2. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?
(a) Clairvoyance.
(b) Immunization.
(c) Chromosome selection.
(d) Community planning.

3. What does Schelling say about offspring?
(a) They will probably look like their paternal grandmothers.
(b) They will probably look like their maternal grandfathers.
(c) They will probably look like their fathers.
(d) They will probably look like their mothers.

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

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' social class.
(b) The number is limited by the parents' genes.
(c) The number is vast.
(d) The number is limited by the parents' environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has to happen before hockey players will accept the requirement to wear helmets, in Schelling's analysis?

2. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

3. What does Schelling say the government might do to correct the imbalance of male and female babies?

4. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?

5. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

(see the answer key)

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