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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 about a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?
(a) He says that the owner still has to pay overhead, so the exchange is equal.
(b) He says that the exchange replaces a real bicycle with abstract money.
(c) He says that the exchange is consistent with laws of capitalism.
(d) He says that the owner gains a profit of $60.

2. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?
(a) If the ads were placed by people of the same denomination.
(b) If the ads specified that race was not an issue.
(c) If the ads asked reasonable prices for goods being sold.
(d) If the ads were placed by black people.

3. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the dependent variables.
(b) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(c) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(d) The imp of the perverse.

4. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?
(a) Quantitative analysis.
(b) Historical analysis.
(c) Qualitative analysis.
(d) Political analysis.

5. Which example does Schelling say complicates the prospect of arriving at a definitive proposition?
(a) A business with a number of different product lines.
(b) A college with an unequal distribution of male and female students.
(c) A commodity whose price is volatile.
(d) A population spread out over a wide geographical area.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?

3. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?

4. How does Schelling describe discrimination?

5. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?

(see the answer key)

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