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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) It depends on his personality.
(b) As many as he makes.
(c) It depends on how many people he knows.
(d) As many as others make.

2. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) Musical chairs.
(b) The development and use of language.
(c) Rumors circulating.
(d) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.

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

4. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.
(b) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.
(c) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(d) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.

5. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(b) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(c) The sum of the dependent variables.
(d) The imp of the perverse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?

3. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

4. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?

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

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