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

2. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A hypothetical explanation of individual's motives.
(b) A flow chart.
(c) A precise statement of a set of relationships.
(d) A form of accounting.

3. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.
(b) Who will buy his milk.
(c) How much milk his cows are giving.
(d) Who will take his milk to market.

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

5. What does Schelling say about binary choices?
(a) Everyone faces them at some point.
(b) They are like life or death decisions.
(c) They are the building blocks of economic modeling.
(d) Sometimes they are paradoxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?

2. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?

3. How many possibilities does Schelling say social scientists have to account for when charting binary choice?

4. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

5. What do hockey players fear in regard to the issue of wearing helmets, in Schelling's analysis?

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