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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. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?
(a) A rising variable alternatively over and under performs.
(b) A trait becomes more and more intense until it expresses itself in heat.
(c) A vessel carries whatever hot or cold air or water runs through it.
(d) A voice distributes its energy into the environment around it.

2. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) The Spanish prisoner.
(b) Prisoner's dilemma.
(c) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(d) The lemon model.

3. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?
(a) There was a short lag before America's investment caught up with and surpassed the Russians'.
(b) The Americans answered the Russians feat for feat.
(c) The Americans were determined not to be outdone from the beginning.
(d) The Russians were determined to win superiority, but victory cost more than they could afford.

4. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.
(b) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(c) A business with a number of different product lines.
(d) A commodity whose price is volatile.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?

3. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

4. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

5. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?

(see the answer key)

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