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

2. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Hide from unpleasant facts.
(b) Put themselves in good positions.
(c) Put others down.
(d) Be honest.

3. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Photosynthesis.
(d) Evolution.

4. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Confidence that he is right.
(b) Safety in numbers.
(c) Deniability.
(d) A plausible excuse.

5. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Perpetual comfort.
(b) Relief from tension.
(c) An appropriate level.
(d) Emptiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?

2. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

3. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?

4. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?

5. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?

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