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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 does Schelling say about mathematical identities?
(a) They are continuous.
(b) They are unreliable.
(c) They are constraining.
(d) They are discrete.

2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(b) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(c) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.
(d) They make a map of social relations.

3. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) Rumors circulating.
(b) The development and use of language.
(c) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(d) Musical chairs.

4. What choice does Schelling say eugenics gave parents?
(a) Whether to keep a baby or not.
(b) Whether to have a left-handed or right-handed baby.
(c) Whether to have a boy or a girl.
(d) Whether to emigrate.

5. What does Schelling say about the results of segregation and integration models?
(a) They have gravitas.
(b) They are interesting.
(c) They can be deceptive.
(d) They are occasionally statistically useful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

2. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

3. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

4. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?

5. What does Schelling say would be the result of chromosomal selection that allowed parents to select for high-IQ children?

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