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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 the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) An appropriate level.
(b) Perpetual comfort.
(c) Relief from tension.
(d) Emptiness.

2. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(b) The imp of the perverse.
(c) The sum of the dependent variables.
(d) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.

3. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Group aversion.
(c) Bunching behavior.
(d) Chaos.

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

5. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A commodity whose price is volatile.
(b) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(c) A business with a number of different product lines.
(d) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?

2. 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?

3. What does Schelling say discrimination is?

4. What does Schelling say provides clear evidence of black versus white areas in American cities?

5. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

(see the answer key)

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