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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Sorting and Mixing: Age and Income.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say about segregation?
(a) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(b) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.
(c) It is generally an emotional expression of the collective unconscious.
(d) It is usually harmless.

2. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?
(a) The Russians were determined to win superiority, but victory cost more than they could afford.
(b) The Americans answered the Russians feat for feat.
(c) The Americans were determined not to be outdone from the beginning.
(d) There was a short lag before America's investment caught up with and surpassed the Russians'.

3. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?
(a) It considers more than age.
(b) It describes the factors that pull people out of a community.
(c) It considers age alone.
(d) It predicts who will leave.

4. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) Prisoner's dilemma.
(b) The lemon model.
(c) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(d) The Spanish prisoner.

5. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Group aversion.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Bunching behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say are discrete variables?

2. What is an example of a prediction which Schelling says closed system modeling cannot make?

3. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?

4. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?

(see the answer key)

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