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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 about the frequency of pairs?
(a) Many phenomena occur in pairs.
(b) Pairs are rare in nature but common in society.
(c) Pairs are common if your criteria are simple.
(d) Pairs are a human construct.

2. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?
(a) He tends to organize with others in his similar situation.
(b) He does not need to know how it works, he only has to perform his part.
(c) He strives for a full understanding of every part.
(d) He tends to specialize, and not to see the influences that drive him.

3. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) They make a map of social relations.
(b) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.
(c) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(d) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.

4. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?
(a) Not to sit near funny-looking people.
(b) Not to sit in the back.
(c) Not to sit in front.
(d) Not to sit next to anyone.

5. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(b) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(c) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(d) Theatres fill randomly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?

2. 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?

3. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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