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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. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?
(a) As a critical mass.
(b) As a self-displacing prophecy.
(c) As a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) As a self-enforcing convention.

2. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be random.
(b) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(c) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(d) He says it might be a learned process.

3. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Irrational exuberance.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Exhaustive subdivision.

4. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?
(a) The influence of the media.
(b) The personalities of each group's leaders.
(c) The local political environment.
(d) Incentives behind the behavior.

5. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?
(a) Pet names.
(b) Mathematical symbols.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Colors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?

2. 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?

3. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?

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

5. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

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