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

2. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?
(a) The fear of violent teachers.
(b) The fear of being involved.
(c) The fear of being called on stage.
(d) The fear of a pop quiz in class.

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

4. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?
(a) That they compel amazement, but not admiration.
(b) That, based on human nature, they are inevitable.
(c) That they are admirable.
(d) That they are pernicious.

5. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?
(a) As a decision that can be predicted by mathematical laws of possibility.
(b) As something common and seemingly thoughtless that is nonetheless informed by subliminal motives.
(c) As a special case that cannot be analyzed using any particular interpretive framework.
(d) As a commonplace act that manifests the unconscious childhood sexual trauma of the individual.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?

2. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?

3. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

4. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

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

(see the answer key)

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