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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. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?
(a) If the ads specified that race was not an issue.
(b) If the ads were placed by people of the same denomination.
(c) If the ads asked reasonable prices for goods being sold.
(d) If the ads were placed by black people.

2. What does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?
(a) Individual incentives.
(b) Fear of punishment.
(c) Political environment.
(d) The collective unconscious.

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) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(c) Prisoner's dilemma.
(d) The Spanish prisoner.

4. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?
(a) Defining the number that will constitute the critical mass.
(b) Articulating the fears that surround the decision in the collective unconscious.
(c) Knowing why people delay their decisions.
(d) Modeling the undesirability of the decision being weighed.

5. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?
(a) Archetypal intelligence.
(b) Anxiety of influence.
(c) Contingent behavior.
(d) Emotional intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?

3. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

4. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

5. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

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