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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 tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?
(a) Metaphors.
(b) Graphic designs.
(c) Computer architecture.
(d) Math.

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

3. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Photosynthesis.

4. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?
(a) As a closed system.
(b) As an open system.
(c) As a transformative system.
(d) As a static system.

5. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?
(a) It does not exist.
(b) It defines the nature of human beings.
(c) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.
(d) It is a transcendent law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

2. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?

3. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?

4. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

5. What does Schelling say about a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?

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