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

2. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(b) Rhetoric of equality.
(c) The invisible hand of the market.
(d) Definition of terms.

3. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(b) A commodity whose price is volatile.
(c) A business with a number of different product lines.
(d) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.

4. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) Because it is darker there.
(b) Because that's where the desirable people sit.
(c) Because they want to be able to leave.
(d) Because they are afraid of the front.

5. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(b) He says it might be random.
(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 a proposition has to have in order to be true?

2. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

3. What does Schelling say individuals react to?

4. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

5. 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?

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