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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 tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?
(a) Graphic designs.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Math.
(d) Computer architecture.

2. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) As an open system.
(b) As a closed system.
(c) As a static equilibrium.
(d) As a semi-closed system.

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

4. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?
(a) Incentives behind the behavior.
(b) The personalities of each group's leaders.
(c) The influence of the media.
(d) The local political environment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?

2. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?

3. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

4. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

5. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

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