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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. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?
(a) Ethnic aversions.
(b) Historical discrimination.
(c) Institutional or economic discrimination.
(d) Religious aversions.

2. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) Who will take his milk to market.
(b) Who will buy his milk.
(c) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.
(d) How much milk his cows are giving.

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

4. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) Political change.
(b) Dust being drizzles onto scales.
(c) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(d) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.

5. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) ItIt is inevitable.
(b) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.
(c) It is necessary.
(d) It can be fairly ordinary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

2. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?

3. How many distinct eggs does Schelling say a woman can produce?

4. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?

5. What does Schelling say would be at risk in a culture where parents preferred male children?

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