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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 would be the downside to chromosomal modification?
(a) Unforeseen medical problems might emerge.
(b) The concept of human-ness might be diminished.
(c) People could argue that traits result more from nurture.
(d) Parents would feel pressure to compete by giving their children the modification.

2. What is another trait does Schelling say parents might be able to choose?
(a) Weight.
(b) Skin color.
(c) Historical knowledge.
(d) IQ.

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

4. What does Schelling call the myriad of potential results?
(a) Exhaustive subdivision.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Irrational exuberance.
(d) Randomness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?

2. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?

3. What does Schelling say might be a demographic consequence of parents choosing their children's traits?

4. What does Schelling say about the frequency of pairs?

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

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