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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 people have a tendency to do?
(a) Put others down.
(b) Be honest.
(c) Hide from unpleasant facts.
(d) Put themselves in good positions.

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

3. What additional explanation does Schelling offer for seat selection?
(a) He says it might be evidence of a higher intelligence.
(b) He says it might be random.
(c) He says it might be a learned process.
(d) He says it might be influenced by the spirits.

4. What additional reason does Schelling give for the desire to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) People want to feel safe in the dark.
(b) People want to be far from the stage.
(c) People want to watch people arrive.
(d) People want to be prepared to flee.

5. What does Schelling say race discrimination can lead to?
(a) Violence.
(b) Economic discrimination.
(c) Harmful segregation.
(d) Race hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is essential to economic analysis?

2. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

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

4. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

5. What does Schelling ultimately say about a decision such as where to sit in a theater?

(see the answer key)

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