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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 consequence does Schelling say might affect people sitting closer to the stage?
(a) They are forced to be watched by the others.
(b) They are socially outcast.
(c) They are will be last to leave.
(d) They can see and hear better.
2. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) A plausible excuse.
(b) Deniability.
(c) Confidence that he is right.
(d) Safety in numbers.
3. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?
(a) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(b) It is neither meaningful nor memorable.
(c) It is a common decision that people make the same way depending on where they are in the crowd.
(d) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.
4. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Ending the draft.
(b) Lowering the drinking age.
(c) Raising the drinking age.
(d) Raising the draft age.
5. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Accounting statements.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Profit and loss.
(d) Income and economic growth.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
2. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?
3. What fear does Schelling say informs the behavior that is ingrained in people's decisions where to sit in a theater?
4. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
5. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?
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