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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 tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?
(a) Math.
(b) Graphic designs.
(c) Computer architecture.
(d) Metaphors.

2. What discrete variable does Schelling say parents could select for?
(a) Left versus right-handedness.
(b) Size.
(c) Bone density.
(d) Longevity.

3. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(b) Theatres fill randomly.
(c) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(d) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.

4. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) The collective unconscious.
(b) The fear of the mass.
(c) The desire of the mass.
(d) Their own stimuli.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?

2. Where do social scientists chart binary choices?

3. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?

4. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?

5. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?

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