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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 about discrimination?
(a) It is a paradox.
(b) It is not necessarily malicious.
(c) It is generally accepted.
(d) It is always offensive.

2. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Raising the drinking age.
(b) Lowering the drinking age.
(c) Raising the draft age.
(d) Ending the draft.

3. What does Schelling say about segregation?
(a) It is usually harmless.
(b) It is generally an emotional expression of the collective unconscious.
(c) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(d) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.

4. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?
(a) Economists' desire for certain outcomes.
(b) The invisible hand of the market.
(c) Rhetoric of equality.
(d) Definition of terms.

5. What does Schelling say constrains the social scientist's model for race segregation?
(a) Quantitative analysis.
(b) Qualitative analysis.
(c) Historical analysis.
(d) Political analysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say about human desire?

2. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

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

4. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?

5. What discrete variable does Schelling say parents could select for?

(see the answer key)

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