Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Thomas Schelling
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Thomas Schelling
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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. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?
(a) Parents could move to the places where their only children would have the best resources.
(b) Parents could move to a place where their children had a better chance of survival.
(c) Parents could choose to abort children if they knew they had deformities.
(d) Parents could stop having kids when they got the balance of boys and girls they wanted.

2. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?
(a) As a static system.
(b) As an open system.
(c) As a closed system.
(d) As a transformative system.

3. 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.

4. What additional factors does Schelling say contribute to population preferences?
(a) Individual quirks.
(b) Family pressures.
(c) Geographical factors.
(d) Maturity levels of individuals.

5. What does Schelling say about an equilibrium division of the population?
(a) It will give us a working model of social mobility
(b) It will not give us a working model of emigration.
(c) It will not produce optimal results.
(d) It will give us a working model of emigration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another trait does Schelling say parents might be able to choose?

2. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?

3. What does Schelling say was seeking equilibrium as America's space industry interacted with the Russians'?

4. What does Schelling say about segregation?

5. What does Schelling say would be at risk in a culture where parents preferred male children?

(see the answer key)

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