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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 the number of genetic variations that can take place when a man and a woman have a baby?
(a) The number is limited by the parents' genes.
(b) The number is limited by the parents' social class.
(c) The number is limited by the parents' environment.
(d) The number is vast.

2. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?
(a) Chromosome selection.
(b) Community planning.
(c) Clairvoyance.
(d) Immunization.

3. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.
(b) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(c) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.
(d) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.

4. 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.

5. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?
(a) Historical guilt.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Race hatred.
(d) Reciprocal behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

2. What does Schelling say might disappear if parents had the ability to choose their children's traits?

3. 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?

4. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?

5. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?

(see the answer key)

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