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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 people have a tendency to do?
(a) Put themselves in good positions.
(b) Be honest.
(c) Put others down.
(d) Hide from unpleasant facts.

2. 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) Improved distribution modeling.
(c) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(d) Room for more factors to be included.

3. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He is involved in the life he is studying.
(b) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(c) He uses non-mathematical data.
(d) He publishes in different journals.

4. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?
(a) Parasympathetic behavior.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Dread and awe.

5. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?
(a) People selling cars.
(b) Cows grazing.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Ethnic populations moving into new neighborhoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the segregation/integration model identify in addition to population concerns?

2. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?

3. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?

4. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?

5. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?

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