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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 about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) It can be fairly ordinary.
(b) It is necessary.
(c) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.
(d) ItIt is inevitable.

2. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?
(a) Pollution.
(b) People selling cars.
(c) Cows grazing.
(d) Ethnic populations moving into new neighborhoods.

3. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?
(a) Something that cannot be stopped once it begins.
(b) Something that has to be restarted after a certain interval.
(c) Something that can only take place if there is a large audience to watch it.
(d) Something that becomes self-sustaining once a certain number of people start to do it.

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) Incentives behind the behavior.
(d) The local political environment.

5. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?
(a) American and European.
(b) Individual and mass.
(c) Boys and girls.
(d) Fish and fowl.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?

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

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

4. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?

5. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

(see the answer key)

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