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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. How does Schelling account for people's decision to join the majority or follow their own path?
(a) Whether to join the majority is not always the most important factor.
(b) He says that it depends on the reasonableness of the behavior.
(c) He says that to join the majority is hard-wired into people.
(d) He says that people will follow certain individuals, not "the mass."

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

3. Where do social scientists chart binary choices?
(a) In schematics.
(b) In statistical analyses.
(c) In spreadsheets.
(d) In articles.

4. What does Schelling say genetic modification would interfere with?
(a) The meaning of being human.
(b) People's most basic rights.
(c) People's sense of their history.
(d) The ability to reflect on one's life.

5. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?
(a) Not to sit in the back.
(b) Not to sit in front.
(c) Not to sit next to anyone.
(d) Not to sit near funny-looking people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?

2. How does Schelling describe discrimination?

3. What does Schelling say you must know in order to understand what segregation might result from choice?

4. How does Schelling explain blacks and whites being excluded from each other's churches?

5. What does Schelling say might allow people to select detailed traits of their children?

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