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

2. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?
(a) Self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) Commons.
(c) Critical mass.
(d) Lemons.

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?
(a) Past injustices.
(b) Economic inequality.
(c) False perceptions.
(d) Historical enmity.

4. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
(a) Happy if they are the vast majority.
(b) Apprehensive about the future if there is a chance that other ethnicities might take over.
(c) Trapped among people similar to themselves.
(d) Happy if members of another race do not outnumber them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?

2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?

3. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?

4. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?

5. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

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