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

2. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
(a) An economic proposition.
(b) The transcendental relationship.
(c) A direct proportion.
(d) The acceleration principle.

3. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Group aversion.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Bunching behavior.

4. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) How much milk his cows are giving.
(b) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.
(c) Who will take his milk to market.
(d) Who will buy his milk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?

2. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

3. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

4. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?

5. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?

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