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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 does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) Who will buy his milk.
(b) How much milk his cows are giving.
(c) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.
(d) Who will take his milk to market.

2. Who was the American president who ordered the bomb to be dropped?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Truman.

3. What does Schelling say would be the downside to chromosomal modification?
(a) The concept of human-ness might be diminished.
(b) Unforeseen medical problems might emerge.
(c) Parents would feel pressure to compete by giving their children the modification.
(d) People could argue that traits result more from nurture.

4. What does Schelling say about a bike owner buying a bike for $90 and selling it for $150?
(a) He says that the owner gains a profit of $60.
(b) He says that the exchange is consistent with laws of capitalism.
(c) He says that the exchange replaces a real bicycle with abstract money.
(d) He says that the owner still has to pay overhead, so the exchange is equal.

5. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?
(a) Whether people are only children.
(b) What language people speak.
(c) Whether people are vaccinated.
(d) How to dress for an office environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about human desire?

2. What does Schelling say about discrimination?

3. Why can the Golden Gate Bridge charge a double toll for traffic in one direction without fear of being unfair?

4. What does Schelling say would be the result of his hypothetical case?

5. How does Schelling account for people's decision to join the majority or follow their own path?

(see the answer key)

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