In a poem by the author of “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children,” a shepherd who is one of these people searches for his goat as the narrator searches for his son on the mountain opposite. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people. In another poem, the speaker repeatedly commands to “put it on record” that he is one of these people in between catalogues of his distinguishing features.
ANSWER: Arabs
[10h] Name this spatial model that provides the basis for its namesake’s principle of minimum differentiation, which states that it is rational for producers to make their goods as similar as possible.
ANSWER: Hotelling’s linear city model [or Hotelling’s location model or the linear city model; accept Hotelling’s law; prompt on linear model; reject “Hotelling’s lemma” or “Hotelling’s rule”]
[10m] The author of “An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion,” Yehuda Amichai, was described as “a challenge to me” by this Palestinian poet, who repeated the refrain “I am an Arab” in his poem “Identity Card.”
ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish
[10m] Spatial economic models employ this market structure with consumer preference dictated by location. This type of imperfect competition is characterized by many firms selling differentiated products.
ANSWER: monopolistic competition [prompt on MC; reject “monopoly”]
[10e] Amichai describes the Arab Shepherd’s hands as these features, which title a Darwish collection about how one of these features “Dies of Thirst.” Langston Hughes wrote a poem in which “The Negro Speaks of” examples of these features like the Congo and the Euphrates.
ANSWER: a river [accept “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” or A River Dies of Thirst]
[10e] In Hotelling’s linear city model, consumers choose firms based only on transportation cost and this variable. In monopolistic competition, firms set this variable for goods and services.
ANSWER: price
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