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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 natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?
(a) Celestial bodies.
(b) A forest.
(c) An ocean ecosystem.
(d) An ant colony.

2. What does Schelling say the "open model" represent?
(a) A history of America.
(b) A model for mobility.
(c) An even age distribution.
(d) A population model for gated communities.

3. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.
(b) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(c) A business with a number of different product lines.
(d) A commodity whose price is volatile.

4. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?
(a) As a special case that cannot be analyzed using any particular interpretive framework.
(b) As something common and seemingly thoughtless that is nonetheless informed by subliminal motives.
(c) As a commonplace act that manifests the unconscious childhood sexual trauma of the individual.
(d) As a decision that can be predicted by mathematical laws of possibility.

5. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) The invisible hand of the market.
(b) Rhetoric of equality.
(c) Definition of terms.
(d) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

2. What does Schelling say the government might do to correct the imbalance of male and female babies?

3. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?

4. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?

5. Under what condition would the population not be constrained by a mathematical identity after the youngest ten percent of a population moved away?

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