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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 the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Confidence that he is right.
(b) Deniability.
(c) Safety in numbers.
(d) A plausible excuse.

2. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Economic theories of entertainment.
(b) Group dynamics.
(c) Spatial distribution.
(d) Randomness.

3. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?
(a) It is neither meaningful nor memorable.
(b) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(c) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.
(d) It is a common decision that people make the same way depending on where they are in the crowd.

4. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?
(a) The system of technical knowledge itself.
(b) The system of America's military defense industry.
(c) The system of America's space agencies.
(d) The system of America's universities which produced scientists.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?

3. What does Schelling say about human desire?

4. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

5. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?

(see the answer key)

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