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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) Deniability.
(b) A plausible excuse.
(c) Confidence that he is right.
(d) Safety in numbers.

2. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) Dust being drizzles onto scales.
(b) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(c) Political change.
(d) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.

3. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) As a closed system.
(b) As a static equilibrium.
(c) As an open system.
(d) As a semi-closed system.

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

5. What does Schelling say about a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?
(a) He says that the exchange replaces a real bicycle with abstract money.
(b) He says that the exchange is consistent with laws of capitalism.
(c) He says that the owner still has to pay overhead, so the exchange is equal.
(d) He says that the owner gains a profit of $60.

Short Answer Questions

1. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?

2. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

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

4. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

5. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

(see the answer key)

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