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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Nonlinear system.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.

2. In physics and fluid mechanics, what refers to the layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where effects of viscosity of the fluid are considered in detail?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Gradient.

3. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?
(a) No one will understand it.
(b) There are no rules.
(c) It requires a new language.
(d) All the work is yet to be done.

4. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?
(a) Enrico Fermi.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Robert May.
(d) James Yorke.

5. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) West Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(d) Bangor, Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?

2. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

3. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

4. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?

5. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?

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