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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 social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?
(a) Mathematical symbols.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Colors.
(d) Pet names.

2. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A thermostat.
(b) A heating fan.
(c) A boiler.
(d) A pipe.

3. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.
(b) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(c) Dust being drizzles onto scales.
(d) Political change.

4. 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?
(a) Introduces non-economic competition.
(b) Introduces uncertainty.
(c) Introduces tension and inequality.
(d) Introduces randomness.

5. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?
(a) Taking a friend of another race to dinner.
(b) Shopping in a store that has fresh produce.
(c) Buying a foreign car because it has good gas mileage.
(d) Driving home the long way to avoid the highway.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?

3. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?

4. 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?

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

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