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Week 5 Quiz

Checking whether this week's seat-saving-as-property reading landed.

Week 5

Four questions on seat-saving as a property system with no formal enforcement.

1. According to the lecture, what actually enforces a seat-saving claim like a jacket on a chair?

Nothing but the expectation that other people will honour it
A café's posted policy
A physical lock or barrier
A numbered ticket tied to the seat

2. What variable does the lecture say changes whether a seat-saving claim is read as legitimate?

Scarcity — how full the room is
The brand of jacket used
The time of day, and nothing else
Whether the café offers table service

3. In this week's Bad manner / Good manner pair, what is the key difference in the good-manner version?

The customer orders first, then takes a table only once they have something to sit down with
The customer never sits down at all
The customer asks staff to guard the table
The customer brings a second jacket to double the claim

4. Why does this week say "he saved a seat" is an incomplete description on its own, whatever the verdict turns out to be?

Because it jumps straight to a verdict without isolating the one variable that actually decides the case — how scarce seats were at that moment
Because it doesn't specify which chair was used
Because it fails to name the jacket's brand
Because it doesn't confirm whether the seat-saver eventually sat down

Related

Week 5: Socio-Political Dynamics of Seat-Saving in Contemporary Cafés
Week 5 Tutorial: Pricing a Saved Seat

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