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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 most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are better than average.
(b) They are unique.
(c) They are average.
(d) They are charismatic.

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

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

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 black people.
(b) If the ads asked reasonable prices for goods being sold.
(c) If the ads were placed by people of the same denomination.
(d) If the ads specified that race was not an issue.

5. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) It depends on how many people he knows.
(b) As many as others make.
(c) As many as he makes.
(d) It depends on his personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What continuous variable does Schelling say parents could select for?

2. How is genetic modification different from eugenics?

3. What does Schelling say is the result if aggregate behavior results from a small number of variables?

4. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

5. What does Schelling say genetic modification would interfere with?

(see the answer key)

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