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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 about human desire?
(a) It is torn within itself and it is split from its own language.
(b) It is torn between irreconcilable desires for different states.
(c) It seeks mathematically-predictable levels of stability.
(d) It changes from childhood to teen years to adulthood.

2. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Rhetoric of equality.
(b) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(c) The invisible hand of the market.
(d) Definition of terms.

3. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?
(a) Exhaustive subdivision.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Irrational exuberance.

4. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) The collective unconscious.
(b) Their own stimuli.
(c) The desire of the mass.
(d) The fear of the mass.

5. 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?
(a) The acceleration principle.
(b) The transcendental relationship.
(c) A direct proportion.
(d) An economic proposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

2. 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?

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

4. What does Schelling say is important in economics?

5. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?

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