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

2. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) The development and use of language.
(b) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(c) Rumors circulating.
(d) Musical chairs.

3. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?
(a) A musician.
(b) A mathematician.
(c) A forest ranger.
(d) A naturalist.

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

5. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
(a) The acceleration principle.
(b) An economic proposition.
(c) The transcendental relationship.
(d) A direct proportion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?

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

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

4. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

5. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?

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