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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Inescapable Mathematics of Musical Chairs.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Schelling say is important in economics?
(a) Individual behavior.
(b) Natural laws.
(c) Generalizations.
(d) Randomness.
2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.
(b) They make a map of social relations.
(c) They do not follow any laws of distribution.
(d) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
3. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?
(a) Because people coming south have more money than people in the city.
(b) Because even one-way drivers will return one day.
(c) Because tolls are designed to repair social inequality.
(d) Because the traffic reverses direction at the end of every day.
4. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?
(a) As something common and seemingly thoughtless that is nonetheless informed by subliminal motives.
(b) As a special case that cannot be analyzed using any particular interpretive framework.
(c) As a decision that can be predicted by mathematical laws of possibility.
(d) As a commonplace act that manifests the unconscious childhood sexual trauma of the individual.
5. 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 meaningful nor memorable.
(c) It is not predictable but it nonetheless follows a pattern.
(d) It is neither superficial nor thoughtless.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?
2. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
3. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?
4. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?
5. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?
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