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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(b) The lemon model.
(c) Prisoner's dilemma.
(d) The Spanish prisoner.

2. 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) Theatres fill randomly.
(c) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(d) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.

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

4. What is the second thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A piece of evidence from which an entire system can be deduced.
(b) A dialogue about the nature of the evidence in a certain system.
(c) A theory that explains a preponderance of evidence.
(d) An actual biological or mechanical system that embodies a certain relationship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?

2. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

3. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?

4. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?

5. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?

(see the answer key)

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