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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. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(b) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(c) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(d) Theatres fill randomly.
2. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?
(a) It is a common decision that people make the same way depending on where they are in the crowd.
(b) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.
(c) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(d) It is neither meaningful nor memorable.
3. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Pet names.
(c) Colors.
(d) Mathematical symbols.
4. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Bunching behavior.
(b) Randomness.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Group aversion.
5. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?
(a) It has to be fair and balanced.
(b) It has to be inclusive and correct.
(c) It has to be able to be translated into an equation.
(d) It has to be mathematically grounded.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?
2. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
3. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?
4. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
5. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?
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