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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say would be the consequence of a culture preferring male children?
(a) Shortage of soldiers.
(b) Shortage of wives.
(c) Shortage of workers.
(d) Influx of immigrants.

2. How does Schelling say chromosomal modification might be useful?
(a) It could reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
(b) It could screen out pathologies.
(c) It could limit the number of still births.
(d) It could reduce the number of undesirables in a culture.

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

4. How does Schelling predict nations will behave with regard to nuclear arms control?
(a) If arms are limited, other weapons will experience arms races.
(b) If one decides to limit arms, the price of arms will go up.
(c) If there are terrorists anywhere in the world, nations will still maintain nuclear arsenals.
(d) If one leads the others will follow.

5. What does Schelling say will be necessary to satisfy people with a closed model?
(a) A correction for young people.
(b) An imposed division.
(c) An arbitray limit on the time period.
(d) An additional regression model.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say parents are most concerned with in the case of vaccination?

2. Why does Schelling say the U.S. did not have to use nuclear weapons in Kuwait?

3. What choice does Schelling say eugenics gave parents?

4. Where do social scientists chart binary choices?

5. What does Schelling say are discrete variables?

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