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

2. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?
(a) Statistical predictability.
(b) Statistical insignificance.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Mathematical equality.

3. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(b) The imp of the perverse.
(c) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(d) The sum of the dependent variables.

4. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Spatial distribution.
(b) Economic theories of entertainment.
(c) Group dynamics.
(d) Randomness.

5. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are better than average.
(b) They are unique.
(c) They are average.
(d) They are charismatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

2. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

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

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

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

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