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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 has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Definition of terms.
(b) The invisible hand of the market.
(c) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(d) Rhetoric of equality.

2. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?
(a) Order and chaos.
(b) Desire and restraint.
(c) Individual interest and collective purpose.
(d) Violence and the threat of punishment.

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

4. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) History.
(b) Paranormal psychology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Psychology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?

2. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

3. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

4. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?

5. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

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