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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?
(a) A critical-mass process.
(b) A paradoxical process.
(c) A counter-intuitive process.
(d) A public-health process.

2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.
(b) They make a map of social relations.
(c) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(d) They do not follow any laws of distribution.

3. 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 admirable.
(c) That, based on human nature, they are inevitable.
(d) That they are pernicious.

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

5. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?
(a) The Russians were determined to win superiority, but victory cost more than they could afford.
(b) The Americans answered the Russians feat for feat.
(c) There was a short lag before America's investment caught up with and surpassed the Russians'.
(d) The Americans were determined not to be outdone from the beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

2. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?

3. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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