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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 balance in individual cases?
(a) It is a transcendent law.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It defines the nature of human beings.
(d) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.

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

3. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?
(a) Photosynthesis.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Evolution.

4. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) Political change.
(b) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.
(c) Dust being drizzles onto scales.
(d) The boom-bust cycle in economics.

5. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?
(a) Violence and the threat of punishment.
(b) Desire and restraint.
(c) Individual interest and collective purpose.
(d) Order and chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is important in economics?

2. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

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

4. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?

5. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

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