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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?
(a) A paradoxical process.
(b) A counter-intuitive process.
(c) A public-health process.
(d) A critical-mass process.

3. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Irrational exuberance.
(c) Exhaustive subdivision.
(d) Randomness.

4. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?
(a) Critical mass.
(b) Self-fulfilling prophecy.
(c) Commons.
(d) Lemons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

2. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?

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 distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?

5. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

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