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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 explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?
(a) Historical guilt.
(b) Reciprocal behavior.
(c) Race hatred.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

2. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A flow chart.
(b) A precise statement of a set of relationships.
(c) A form of accounting.
(d) A hypothetical explanation of individual's motives.

3. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(b) Theatres fill randomly.
(c) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(d) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.

4. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) Their own stimuli.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) The desire of the mass.
(d) The fear of the mass.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?

3. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?

4. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?

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

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