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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?
(a) Religious aversions.
(b) Historical discrimination.
(c) Ethnic aversions.
(d) Institutional or economic discrimination.

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

3. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
(a) An economic proposition.
(b) The acceleration principle.
(c) A direct proportion.
(d) The transcendental relationship.

4. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are average.
(b) They are charismatic.
(c) They are unique.
(d) They are better than average.

5. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) The invisible hand of the market.
(b) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(c) Rhetoric of equality.
(d) Definition of terms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

2. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

3. What does Schelling say is important in economics?

4. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?

5. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?

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