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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?
(a) It can be fairly ordinary.
(b) It is necessary.
(c) It is based in race or ethnic hatred.
(d) ItIt is inevitable.

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

3. What process does Schelling imagine parents choosing to undergo, in his hypothetical example?
(a) Chromosome selection.
(b) Community planning.
(c) Clairvoyance.
(d) Immunization.

4. How can one gather information about the choice of the majority, in Schelling's example?
(a) By statistical analysis.
(b) By polling.
(c) By detailed research.
(d) By observation.

5. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?
(a) Bunching behavior.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Group aversion.
(d) Randomness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

2. What does Schelling say about discrimination as a reason for segregation?

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

4. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

5. What does Schelling call the phenomenon when two independent activities are dependent upon each other in that one is looked to as the other's source of growth?

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