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

2. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Paranormal psychology.
(c) Economics.
(d) History.

3. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?
(a) It does not exist.
(b) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.
(c) It is a transcendent law.
(d) It defines the nature of human beings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?

4. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

5. What does Schelling say about the number of genetic variations that can take place when a man and a woman have a baby?

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