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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 tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?
(a) Math.
(b) Graphic designs.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Computer architecture.

2. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Hide from unpleasant facts.
(b) Put others down.
(c) Be honest.
(d) Put themselves in good positions.

3. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?
(a) As an open system.
(b) As a transformative system.
(c) As a closed system.
(d) As a static system.

4. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
(a) Dread and awe.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Preferences and goals.
(d) Longing and fear.

5. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) Because it is darker there.
(b) Because that's where the desirable people sit.
(c) Because they are afraid of the front.
(d) Because they want to be able to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

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

3. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

4. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

5. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?

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