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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Choosing Our Children's Genes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.
(b) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.
(c) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(d) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.

2. What does Schelling say might allow people to select detailed traits of their children?
(a) Hormone therapies.
(b) Chromosome mining.
(c) Radiation therapy.
(d) Genetic mapping.

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

4. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(b) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(c) The sum of the dependent variables.
(d) The imp of the perverse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about human desire?

2. What does Schelling say the number of bikes stolen is almost identical to?

3. What does Schelling say about the number of genetic variations that can take place when a man and a woman have a baby?

4. What does Schelling say about offspring?

5. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

(see the answer key)

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