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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 does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?
(a) He tends to organize with others in his similar situation.
(b) He does not need to know how it works, he only has to perform his part.
(c) He tends to specialize, and not to see the influences that drive him.
(d) He strives for a full understanding of every part.

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

3. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?
(a) The system of technical knowledge itself.
(b) The system of America's universities which produced scientists.
(c) The system of America's space agencies.
(d) The system of America's military defense industry.

4. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) Prisoner's dilemma.
(b) The lemon model.
(c) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(d) The Spanish prisoner.

5. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?
(a) It has to be able to be translated into an equation.
(b) It has to be fair and balanced.
(c) It has to be mathematically grounded.
(d) It has to be inclusive and correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

2. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?

3. To what does Schelling compare a sociologist?

4. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

5. What does Schelling say would be the consequence of a culture preferring male children?

(see the answer key)

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