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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What part of a heating system does Schelling use as a metaphor for human behavior?
(a) A boiler.
(b) A thermostat.
(c) A heating fan.
(d) A pipe.
2. What does Schelling celebrate in the beginning of the final chapter of Micromotives and Macrobehavior?
(a) That the USSR dissolved.
(b) That nuclear weapons have been curtailed through treaties.
(c) That there have not been nuclear attacks since WWII.
(d) That nuclear testing has not continued.
3. How does Schelling arrive at the number of genetic possibilities in two people's offspring?
(a) By adding the number of possible eggs and the number of possible sperm.
(b) By multiplying the number of possible eggs and the number of possible sperm.
(c) By dividing the number of possible eggs and the number of possible sperm.
(d) By running the eggs and sperm through polymerase chain reactions.
4. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
(a) Happy if they are the vast majority.
(b) Trapped among people similar to themselves.
(c) Apprehensive about the future if there is a chance that other ethnicities might take over.
(d) Happy if members of another race do not outnumber them.
5. What is a binary choice?
(a) A lose-lose situation.
(b) An either/or situation.
(c) A question of which thing of two things goes first.
(d) A paradox.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Schelling say would be the result of chromosomal selection that allowed parents to select for high-IQ children?
2. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?
3. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
4. What additional factors does Schelling say contribute to population preferences?
5. What does Schelling ultimately say about choosing the sex of one's baby?
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