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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Inescapable Mathematics of Musical Chairs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?
(a) On the aggregate, not the individual level.
(b) In the welfare of the least successful individuals.
(c) In the success of the leaders and superior individuals.
(d) In the health and success of individuals.

2. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Group aversion.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Bunching behavior.
(d) Randomness.

3. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Accounting statements.
(b) Profit and loss.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Income and economic growth.

4. What consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(b) They are will be last to leave.
(c) They are socially outcast.
(d) They can see and hear better.

5. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(b) Theatres fill randomly.
(c) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(d) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

2. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

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

4. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?

5. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?

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