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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 Christmas cards?
(a) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(b) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(c) They make a map of social relations.
(d) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.

2. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(b) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(c) The imp of the perverse.
(d) The sum of the dependent variables.

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

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

5. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?
(a) The fear of being called on stage.
(b) The fear of being involved.
(c) The fear of a pop quiz in class.
(d) The fear of violent teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

2. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?

3. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?

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

5. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

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