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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Choosing Our Children's Genes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?
(a) A paradoxical process.
(b) A public-health process.
(c) A critical-mass process.
(d) A counter-intuitive process.

2. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Hidden variables.
(b) Unexpected results.
(c) Latent resistances.
(d) Lag time.

3. What does Schelling say is important in economics?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Natural laws.
(c) Generalizations.
(d) Individual behavior.

4. How is genetic modification different from eugenics?
(a) Eugenics allows for selection of more minute traits.
(b) They are effectively the same.
(c) Genetic modification theories have already led to ethnic cleansing.
(d) Genetic modification is more subtle.

5. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(b) Dust being drizzles onto scales.
(c) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.
(d) Political change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?

2. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?

3. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?

4. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?

5. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?

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