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

2. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?
(a) Archetypal intelligence.
(b) Anxiety of influence.
(c) Contingent behavior.
(d) Emotional intelligence.

3. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(b) He uses non-mathematical data.
(c) He publishes in different journals.
(d) He is involved in the life he is studying.

4. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) The development and use of language.
(b) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(c) Musical chairs.
(d) Rumors circulating.

5. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?
(a) A mathematician.
(b) A forest ranger.
(c) A musician.
(d) A naturalist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

2. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

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

4. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?

5. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?

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