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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 is a binary choice?
(a) A lose-lose situation.
(b) A question of which thing of two things goes first.
(c) An either/or situation.
(d) A paradox.

2. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?
(a) Parents could move to the places where their only children would have the best resources.
(b) Parents could stop having kids when they got the balance of boys and girls they wanted.
(c) Parents could move to a place where their children had a better chance of survival.
(d) Parents could choose to abort children if they knew they had deformities.

3. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Deniability.
(b) Confidence that he is right.
(c) Safety in numbers.
(d) A plausible excuse.

4. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be a learned process.
(b) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(c) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(d) He says it might be random.

5. What does Schelling say is the importance of segregation and integration models?
(a) They provide the tools for influencing population distribution
(b) They are useful in certain mathematical applications.
(c) They help us build conceptual models of more complex behavior like dating and marriage.
(d) They identify an important phenomenon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say happens when the youngest ten percent of a population moves?

2. What vocabulary does Schelling use for "going along with the crowd"?

3. What is an unconditional preference?

4. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?

5. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

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