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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 is an example of a prediction which Schelling says closed system modeling cannot make?
(a) People who want to live with people of the same race generally like their neighbors.
(b) People will not settle in one place, but they will keep searching for places that meet different needs.
(c) People who want to live near family will act on other preferences, like not living near shopping malls.
(d) People who don't like dogs don't necessarily dislike dog owners.

2. 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.

3. What does Schelling say about mathematical identities?
(a) They are unreliable.
(b) They are constraining.
(c) They are discrete.
(d) They are continuous.

4. What does Schelling say is the goal of his model for describing segregation?
(a) An acceptable equilibrium between racial groups.
(b) An equitable division of resources between racial groups.
(c) An end to the tensions between ethnic groups.
(d) A preservation of tensions between ethnic groups.

5. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?
(a) Because they want to be able to leave.
(b) Because it is darker there.
(c) Because that's where the desirable people sit.
(d) Because they are afraid of the front.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say economic models of human behavior consider?

2. How does Schelling characterize the individual's relationship with the society?

3. What does Schelling say people feel in a "bounded-neighborhood" model?

4. What does Schelling say about the underlying motivation for segregation?

5. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?

(see the answer key)

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