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

2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(b) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(c) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.
(d) They make a map of social relations.

3. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) The lemon model.
(b) Prisoner's dilemma.
(c) The Spanish prisoner.
(d) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.

4. What does Schelling say about human desire?
(a) It is torn within itself and it is split from its own language.
(b) It is torn between irreconcilable desires for different states.
(c) It changes from childhood to teen years to adulthood.
(d) It seeks mathematically-predictable levels of stability.

5. 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) The transcendental relationship.
(b) A direct proportion.
(c) An economic proposition.
(d) The acceleration principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?

2. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?

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

4. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?

5. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?

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