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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 example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?
(a) Photosynthesis.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Gravity.

2. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to feel safe in the dark.
(b) People want to be far from the stage.
(c) People want to watch people arrive.
(d) People want to be prepared to flee.

3. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) Paranormal psychology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Economics.
(d) History.

4. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be random.
(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 evidence of a higher intelligence.

5. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?
(a) That they compel amazement, but not admiration.
(b) That they are pernicious.
(c) That they are admirable.
(d) That, based on human nature, they are inevitable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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