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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 about Christmas cards?
(a) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(b) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(c) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.
(d) They make a map of social relations.

2. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?
(a) If the ads specified that race was not an issue.
(b) If the ads asked reasonable prices for goods being sold.
(c) If the ads were placed by black people.
(d) If the ads were placed by people of the same denomination.

3. What does Schelling say would be the result of his hypothetical case?
(a) He says that there would likely be smaller communities in some cultures. He says that there would likely be larger communities in some cultures.
(b) He says that it would be impossible to know what would happen.
(c) He says that there would likely be larger communities in some cultures.
(d) He says that the outcome would depend on the sample size.

4. What factor does Schelling use as an example of what motivates adults in their distribution decisions?
(a) Living with people of the same race.
(b) Living near people of the same age.
(c) Living near people who also have small children.
(d) Living near family.

5. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) The collective unconscious.
(b) The desire of the mass.
(c) Their own stimuli.
(d) The fear of the mass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many distinct sperm does Schelling say a man can produce?

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

3. 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.

4. 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?

5. How many possibilities does Schelling say social scientists have to account for when charting binary choice?

(see the answer key)

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