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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 say people are segregated?
(a) By income and heritage.
(b) By their preference for Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
(c) By sex and age.
(d) By college major and degree.

2. What does Schelling say the government might do to correct the imbalance of male and female babies?
(a) Teach female children to read and write.
(b) Offer tax incentives.
(c) Punish parents with too many boys.
(d) Offer incentives for immigrants with female children.

3. How is genetic modification different from eugenics?
(a) They are effectively the same.
(b) Genetic modification is more subtle.
(c) Genetic modification theories have already led to ethnic cleansing.
(d) Eugenics allows for selection of more minute traits.

4. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.
(b) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(c) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.
(d) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.

5. What does Schelling say the "open model" represent?
(a) A population model for gated communities.
(b) An even age distribution.
(c) A history of America.
(d) A model for mobility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why might segregation result without discrimination?

2. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?

3. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?

4. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

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

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