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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?
(a) Everyone under 25 and over 70 will move out.
(b) Everyone under 35 and everyone over 65 will move out.
(c) People over 90 will stay to be part of the group.
(d) People will stay until they move to nursing homes.

2. What does Schelling say about discrimination?
(a) It is not necessarily malicious.
(b) It is generally accepted.
(c) It is always offensive.
(d) It is a paradox.

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

4. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?
(a) Whether people are vaccinated.
(b) What language people speak.
(c) How to dress for an office environment.
(d) Whether people are only children.

5. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Spatial distribution.
(c) Economic theories of entertainment.
(d) Group dynamics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say economic models of human behavior consider?

2. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?

3. What does Schelling say is the best use of sorting and mixing models?

4. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

5. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?

(see the answer key)

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