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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 does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?
(a) As something common and seemingly thoughtless that is nonetheless informed by subliminal motives.
(b) As a decision that can be predicted by mathematical laws of possibility.
(c) As a commonplace act that manifests the unconscious childhood sexual trauma of the individual.
(d) As a special case that cannot be analyzed using any particular interpretive framework.

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

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

4. What does Schelling say is important in economics?
(a) Generalizations.
(b) Individual behavior.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Natural laws.

5. What does Schelling say about human desire?
(a) It seeks mathematically-predictable levels of stability.
(b) It is torn within itself and it is split from its own language.
(c) It changes from childhood to teen years to adulthood.
(d) It is torn between irreconcilable desires for different states.

Short Answer Questions

1. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

2. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?

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

4. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?

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

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