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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 people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?
(a) Trapped among people similar to themselves.
(b) Happy if they are the vast majority.
(c) Happy if members of another race do not outnumber them.
(d) Apprehensive about the future if there is a chance that other ethnicities might take over.
2. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(b) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.
(c) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.
(d) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.
3. What does Schelling say genetic modification would interfere with?
(a) The meaning of being human.
(b) The ability to reflect on one's life.
(c) People's sense of their history.
(d) People's most basic rights.
4. How does Schelling say the Russian's space program affected America's space program?
(a) The Russians were determined to win superiority, but victory cost more than they could afford.
(b) The Americans were determined not to be outdone from the beginning.
(c) The Americans answered the Russians feat for feat.
(d) There was a short lag before America's investment caught up with and surpassed the Russians'.
5. What does Schelling say about an equilibrium division of the population?
(a) It will not produce optimal results.
(b) It will give us a working model of emigration.
(c) It will not give us a working model of emigration.
(d) It will give us a working model of social mobility
Short Answer Questions
1. What example does Schelling use as an example of discrimination?
2. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
3. How does Schelling say people are segregated?
4. What does Schelling say would be the downside to chromosomal modification?
5. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
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