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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 is an example of a prediction which Schelling says closed system modeling cannot make?
(a) People who want to live near family will act on other preferences, like not living near shopping malls.
(b) People who don't like dogs don't necessarily dislike dog owners.
(c) People will not settle in one place, but they will keep searching for places that meet different needs.
(d) People who want to live with people of the same race generally like their neighbors.

2. How does Schelling say people are segregated?
(a) By income and heritage.
(b) By sex and age.
(c) By college major and degree.
(d) By their preference for Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.

3. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Group dynamics.
(b) Economic theories of entertainment.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Spatial distribution.

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

5. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Raising the draft age.
(b) Raising the drinking age.
(c) Lowering the drinking age.
(d) Ending the draft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?

2. What does Schelling ultimately say about choosing the sex of one's baby?

3. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

4. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

5. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?

(see the answer key)

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