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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. 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 randomly.
(d) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.

2. What does Schelling say about Christmas cards?
(a) They make a map of social relations.
(b) There is generally a balance between how many each person receives.
(c) Sometimes they are sent out of guilt.
(d) They do not follow any laws of distribution.

3. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?
(a) A musician.
(b) A naturalist.
(c) A forest ranger.
(d) A mathematician.

4. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(b) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.
(c) He says it might be random.
(d) He says it might be a learned process.

5. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?
(a) It defines the nature of human beings.
(b) It is a transcendent law.
(c) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.
(d) It does not exist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

2. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?

3. What does Schelling say is important in economics?

4. How does Schelling say the success of society is evaluated?

5. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

(see the answer key)

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