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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Schelling account for people's decision to join the majority or follow their own path?
(a) Whether to join the majority is not always the most important factor.
(b) He says that to join the majority is hard-wired into people.
(c) He says that it depends on the reasonableness of the behavior.
(d) He says that people will follow certain individuals, not "the mass."

2. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?
(a) Because even one-way drivers will return one day.
(b) Because the traffic reverses direction at the end of every day.
(c) Because people coming south have more money than people in the city.
(d) Because tolls are designed to repair social inequality.

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

4. What does Schelling say would a density enhancement add to a closed model? Improved distribution modeling. Room for more factors to be included. Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(a) Predictive accuracy.
(b) Room for more factors to be included.
(c) Improved distribution modeling.
(d) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.

5. What does Schelling say about offspring?
(a) They will probably look like their paternal grandmothers.
(b) They will probably look like their mothers.
(c) They will probably look like their maternal grandfathers.
(d) They will probably look like their fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?

2. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

3. What factor does Schelling use as an example of what motivates adults in their distribution decisions?

4. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?

5. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

(see the answer key)

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