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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 is the importance of segregation and integration models?
(a) They are useful in certain mathematical applications.
(b) They help us build conceptual models of more complex behavior like dating and marriage.
(c) They provide the tools for influencing population distribution
(d) They identify an important phenomenon.

2. What does Schelling say the segregation/integration model identify in addition to population concerns?
(a) Biases.
(b) Activity.
(c) Crime.
(d) Market trends.

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

4. What does Schelling say are continuous variables?
(a) Associations, memberships, and career.
(b) Sex, race and religion.
(c) Age, income and IQ.
(d) History, ethnicity and tradition.

5. What does Schelling say would a density enhancement add to a closed model? Improved distribution modeling. Room for more factors to be included. Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(a) Relief from certain mathematical constraints.
(b) Improved distribution modeling.
(c) Room for more factors to be included.
(d) Predictive accuracy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?

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

4. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?

5. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?

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