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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say might allow people to select detailed traits of their children?
(a) Chromosome mining.
(b) Hormone therapies.
(c) Genetic mapping.
(d) Radiation therapy.

2. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.
(b) Theatres fill randomly.
(c) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(d) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.

3. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?
(a) It could reduce the number of undesirables in a culture.
(b) It could reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
(c) It could screen out pathologies.
(d) It could limit the number of still births.

4. Under what condition would the population not be constrained by a mathematical identity after the youngest ten percent of a population moved away?
(a) The young people would not be able to come back for visits.
(b) The people would still have to live within a reasonable distance.
(c) The remaining people would have to fill in the work the youngest people had done.
(d) The remaining people would have to be the same age.

5. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?
(a) The acceleration principle.
(b) The transcendental relationship.
(c) A direct proportion.
(d) An economic proposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

2. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

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

4. What can a closed system with a density enhancement include, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

(see the answer key)

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