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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. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) As a semi-closed system.
(b) As an open system.
(c) As a static equilibrium.
(d) As a closed system.

2. What does Schelling say would be the result of chromosomal selection that allowed parents to select for high-IQ children?
(a) The incidence of social problems would increase, since intelligence and maturity are different variables.
(b) The IQ range would yield a higher average IQ.
(c) Schools would not have to keep children until sixteen years of age.
(d) Parents would not have to work because their children would make more money and support them.

3. What does Schelling say about discrimination?
(a) It is not necessarily malicious.
(b) It is generally accepted.
(c) It is a paradox.
(d) It is always offensive.

4. What choice does Schelling say eugenics gave parents?
(a) Whether to emigrate.
(b) Whether to have a boy or a girl.
(c) Whether to keep a baby or not.
(d) Whether to have a left-handed or right-handed baby.

5. What does Schelling say about segregation?
(a) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.
(b) It is usually harmless.
(c) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(d) It is generally an emotional expression of the collective unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling describe discrimination?

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. How does Schelling arrive at the number of genetic possibilities in two people's offspring?

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

5. What is another trait does Schelling say parents might be able to choose?

(see the answer key)

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