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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say genetic modification would interfere with?
(a) People's most basic rights.
(b) The ability to reflect on one's life.
(c) People's sense of their history.
(d) The meaning of being human.

2. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) An appropriate level.
(b) Relief from tension.
(c) Perpetual comfort.
(d) Emptiness.

3. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?
(a) Colors.
(b) Mathematical symbols.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Pet names.

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

5. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?
(a) It could screen out pathologies.
(b) It could reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
(c) It could limit the number of still births.
(d) It could reduce the number of undesirables in a culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many distinct sperm does Schelling say a man can produce?

2. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

3. What does it mean if the median age is 45 in an open model?

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

5. How does Schelling describe discrimination?

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