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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say about the number of genetic variations that can take place when a man and a woman have a baby?
(a) The number is vast.
(b) The number is limited by the parents' social class.
(c) The number is limited by the parents' environment.
(d) The number is limited by the parents' genes.

2. What is an unconditional preference?
(a) A force of psychological nature.
(b) A preference that does not acknowledge other alternatives.
(c) A preference that does not change regardless of others' actions.
(d) A preference that has to be adopted by all members of a group.

3. What does Schelling celebrate in the beginning of the final chapter of Micromotives and Macrobehavior?
(a) That there have not been nuclear attacks since WWII.
(b) That nuclear testing has not continued.
(c) That the USSR dissolved.
(d) That nuclear weapons have been curtailed through treaties.

4. What does Schelling say about the "closed model"?
(a) It considers more than age.
(b) It describes the factors that pull people out of a community.
(c) It predicts who will leave.
(d) It considers age alone.

5. What example does Schelling use to illustrate decisions of the majority that can be known?
(a) How to dress for an office environment.
(b) Whether people are only children.
(c) Whether people are vaccinated.
(d) What language people speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is genetic modification different from eugenics?

2. What discrete variable does Schelling say parents could select for?

3. What does Schelling say the "open model" represent?

4. What continuous variable does Schelling say parents could select for?

5. What does Schelling say can be included in closed models?

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