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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 the critical mass provide for the individual?
(a) Confidence that he is right.
(b) A plausible excuse.
(c) Safety in numbers.
(d) Deniability.

2. 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?
(a) An economic proposition.
(b) The acceleration principle.
(c) A direct proportion.
(d) The transcendental relationship.

3. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Hide from unpleasant facts.
(b) Be honest.
(c) Put others down.
(d) Put themselves in good positions.

4. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?
(a) How much it will cost the driver to take his milk to market.
(b) Who will buy his milk.
(c) Who will take his milk to market.
(d) How much milk his cows are giving.

5. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Relief from tension.
(b) Emptiness.
(c) Perpetual comfort.
(d) An appropriate level.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?

2. Schelling says that it is hard to draw the line between "individually motivated" segregation and what?

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

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

5. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

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