Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Thomas Schelling
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Thomas Schelling
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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. What does Schelling say provides clear evidence of black versus white areas in American cities?
(a) First-hand observation.
(b) Demography.
(c) History books.
(d) Maps.

2. How does Schelling say people are segregated?
(a) By their preference for Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
(b) By college major and degree.
(c) By income and heritage.
(d) By sex and age.

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

4. What does Schelling say about human desire?
(a) It changes from childhood to teen years to adulthood.
(b) It is torn between irreconcilable desires for different states.
(c) It seeks mathematically-predictable levels of stability.
(d) It is torn within itself and it is split from its own language.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?

2. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

3. What does Schelling say race discrimination can lead to?

4. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

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

(see the answer key)

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