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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 individual behaviors have in economic analysis?
(a) Statistical insignificance.
(b) Statistical predictability.
(c) Mathematical equality.
(d) Randomness.

2. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Raising the drinking age.
(b) Lowering the drinking age.
(c) Ending the draft.
(d) Raising the draft age.

3. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?
(a) Pairs are common if your criteria are simple.
(b) Pairs are a human construct.
(c) Many phenomena occur in pairs.
(d) Pairs are rare in nature but common in society.

4. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(b) Theatres fill randomly.
(c) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(d) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.

5. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?
(a) Accounting statements.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Income and economic growth.
(d) Profit and loss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about human desire?

2. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?

3. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?

4. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

5. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

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