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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 is important in economics?
(a) Individual behavior.
(b) Natural laws.
(c) Generalizations.
(d) Randomness.

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

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

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

5. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He uses non-mathematical data.
(b) He publishes in different journals.
(c) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(d) He is involved in the life he is studying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

2. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?

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

4. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

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

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