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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 constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?
(a) Political analysis.
(b) Quantitative analysis.
(c) Qualitative analysis.
(d) Historical analysis.

2. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A heating fan.
(b) A boiler.
(c) A thermostat.
(d) A pipe.

3. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Heritage and culture.
(b) Age, income and marital status.
(c) Morality and ethics.
(d) Ethnicity, mobility and community.

4. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to be far from the stage.
(b) People want to feel safe in the dark.
(c) People want to be prepared to flee.
(d) People want to watch people arrive.

5. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) Because that's where the desirable people sit.
(b) Because it is darker there.
(c) Because they are afraid of the front.
(d) Because they want to be able to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Schelling use to explain the closed system with a density enhancement?

2. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?

3. 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?

4. 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.

5. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

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