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

2. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?
(a) Because even one-way drivers will return one day.
(b) Because the traffic reverses direction at the end of every day.
(c) Because people coming south have more money than people in the city.
(d) Because tolls are designed to repair social inequality.

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

4. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are better than average.
(b) They are unique.
(c) They are charismatic.
(d) They are average.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is important in economics?

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 does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

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

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

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