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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?
(a) He tends to specialize, and not to see the influences that drive him.
(b) He does not need to know how it works, he only has to perform his part.
(c) He tends to organize with others in his similar situation.
(d) He strives for a full understanding of every part.

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

4. What factor does Schelling use as an example of what motivates adults in their distribution decisions?
(a) Living with people of the same race.
(b) Living near people of the same age.
(c) Living near people who also have small children.
(d) Living near family.

5. What is the central issue in the case Schelling presents regarding hockey helmets?
(a) The authority of the league.
(b) The reasonableness of the decision.
(c) How many people make the choice.
(d) The validity of safety statistics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

2. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?

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

4. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?

5. How many distinct eggs does Schelling say a woman can produce?

(see the answer key)

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