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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 about offspring?
(a) They will probably look like their maternal grandfathers.
(b) They will probably look like their mothers.
(c) They will probably look like their paternal grandmothers.
(d) They will probably look like their fathers.

2. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?
(a) People selling cars.
(b) Ethnic populations moving into new neighborhoods.
(c) Cows grazing.
(d) Pollution.

3. What does Schelling say discrimination is?
(a) Willingness to be biased.
(b) Preference for one race over another.
(c) Refusal to consider reason in a decision.
(d) Conscious awareness of a choice.

4. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) The desire of the mass.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) The fear of the mass.
(d) Their own stimuli.

5. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?
(a) Self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) Commons.
(c) Lemons.
(d) Critical mass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?

2. What does Schelling say the processes of separation, segregation, sharing, and mixing have in common?

3. What does Schelling say about economic systems that allow unequal distribution of wealth?

4. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

5. What does Schelling ultimately say about choosing the sex of one's baby?

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