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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 most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are charismatic.
(b) They are average.
(c) They are better than average.
(d) They are unique.

2. What does Schelling say is the best use of sorting and mixing models?
(a) Marriage and evolution.
(b) Population and food supply.
(c) Free markets.
(d) Residence or membership.

3. What does Schelling say social scientists will replace the aspects of a system with in order to understand the system?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Colors.
(c) Mathematical symbols.
(d) Pet names.

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

5. What does the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Safety in numbers.
(b) Confidence that he is right.
(c) Deniability.
(d) A plausible excuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?

2. What example from nature does Schelling contrapose to human decisions?

3. What does Schelling say about segregation?

4. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?

5. What does Schelling say would be the result of chromosomal selection that allowed parents to select for high-IQ children?

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