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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 number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?
(a) The number of bikes that cannot be fixed each year.
(b) The number of bikes not reported stolen.
(c) The number of bikes reported stolen.
(d) One third of the number of bikes bought new.

2. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?
(a) It has to be mathematically grounded.
(b) It has to be fair and balanced.
(c) It has to be able to be translated into an equation.
(d) It has to be inclusive and correct.

3. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Put themselves in good positions.
(b) Be honest.
(c) Put others down.
(d) Hide from unpleasant facts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

2. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

3. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?

4. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?

5. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?

(see the answer key)

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