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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?
(a) Reciprocal behavior.
(b) Race hatred.
(c) Jim Crow laws.
(d) Historical guilt.

2. What does Schelling say race discrimination is caused by?
(a) False perceptions.
(b) Historical enmity.
(c) Past injustices.
(d) Economic inequality.

3. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Photosynthesis.
(d) Gravity.

4. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?
(a) Because even one-way drivers will return one day.
(b) Because tolls are designed to repair social inequality.
(c) Because the traffic reverses direction at the end of every day.
(d) Because people coming south have more money than people in the city.

5. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?
(a) Mathematical symbols.
(b) Colors.
(c) Pet names.
(d) Numbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?

2. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

3. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

4. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

5. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

(see the answer key)

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