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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Inescapable Mathematics of Musical Chairs.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Income and economic growth.
(b) Profit and loss.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Accounting statements.

3. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be a learned process.
(b) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(c) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(d) He says it might be random.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?

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. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?

4. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

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

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