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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 might disappear if parents had the ability to choose their children's traits?
(a) Inequalities.
(b) Undesirable traits.
(c) Minority cultures.
(d) Languages.

2. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.
(b) ItIt is inevitable.
(c) It can be fairly ordinary.
(d) It is necessary.

3. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?
(a) Median IQ might increase.
(b) Left-handedness might disappear.
(c) Median longevity might increase.
(d) Median size might increase.

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

5. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?
(a) Many phenomena occur in pairs.
(b) Pairs are a human construct.
(c) Pairs are common if your criteria are simple.
(d) Pairs are rare in nature but common in society.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many distinct sperm does Schelling say a man can produce?

2. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

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

4. What does Schelling say would be the result of his hypothetical case?

5. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?

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