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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 about human desire?
(a) It seeks mathematically-predictable levels of stability.
(b) It changes from childhood to teen years to adulthood.
(c) It is torn within itself and it is split from its own language.
(d) It is torn between irreconcilable desires for different states.

2. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A commodity whose price is volatile.
(b) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.
(c) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(d) A business with a number of different product lines.

3. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to be prepared to flee.
(b) People want to be far from the stage.
(c) People want to feel safe in the dark.
(d) People want to watch people arrive.

4. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The imp of the perverse.
(b) The sum of the dependent variables.
(c) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(d) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.

5. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He is involved in the life he is studying.
(b) He publishes in different journals.
(c) He uses non-mathematical data.
(d) He studies himself as well as his subject.

Short Answer Questions

1. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

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

3. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?

4. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?

5. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?

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