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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. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?
(a) As a decision that can be predicted by mathematical laws of possibility.
(b) As a commonplace act that manifests the unconscious childhood sexual trauma of the individual.
(c) As something common and seemingly thoughtless that is nonetheless informed by subliminal motives.
(d) As a special case that cannot be analyzed using any particular interpretive framework.

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

3. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?
(a) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(b) It is a common decision that people make the same way depending on where they are in the crowd.
(c) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.
(d) It is neither meaningful nor memorable.

4. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?
(a) It has to be mathematically grounded.
(b) It has to be inclusive and correct.
(c) It has to be able to be translated into an equation.
(d) It has to be fair and balanced.

5. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) The collective unconscious.
(b) The desire of the mass.
(c) The fear of the mass.
(d) Their own stimuli.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

2. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?

3. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?

4. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

5. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?

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