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

2. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(b) Definition of terms.
(c) Rhetoric of equality.
(d) The invisible hand of the market.

3. How does Schelling describe discrimination?
(a) As a court of opinion and rumor.
(b) As a two-fold distinction.
(c) As the opposite of the free market.
(d) As an absolute preference.

4. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) The development and use of language.
(b) Musical chairs.
(c) Rumors circulating.
(d) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.

5. 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 is consistent with laws of capitalism.
(c) He says that the exchange replaces a real bicycle with abstract money.
(d) He says that the owner gains a profit of $60.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Schelling say the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?

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

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

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

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