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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 do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Hidden variables.
(b) Lag time.
(c) Unexpected results.
(d) Latent resistances.

2. Why might segregation result without discrimination?
(a) Areas might be historically aligned with one group or another.
(b) Areas might have been populated during successive waves of immigration.
(c) Either of two groups might want to be the majority in an area.
(d) A city might have built housing for foreign refugees of war or famine.

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

4. What does Schelling say is important in economics?
(a) Individual behavior.
(b) Randomness.
(c) Natural laws.
(d) Generalizations.

5. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?
(a) The number of bikes not reported stolen.
(b) One third of the number of bikes bought new.
(c) The number of bikes that cannot be fixed each year.
(d) The number of bikes reported stolen.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?

5. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

(see the answer key)

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