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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 call the myriad of potential results?
(a) Exhaustive subdivision.
(b) Randomness.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Irrational exuberance.

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

3. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?
(a) In the success of the leaders and superior individuals.
(b) On the aggregate, not the individual level.
(c) In the health and success of individuals.
(d) In the welfare of the least successful individuals.

4. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) Musical chairs.
(b) Rumors circulating.
(c) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(d) The development and use of language.

5. 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 evidence of a higher intelligence.
(d) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?

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

4. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

5. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

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