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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Robert May.
(c) James Yorke.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

2. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(b) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
(c) "Period Three Implies Chaos."
(d) "Physical Review Letters."

3. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

4. Where was James Yorke born?
(a) Portland, Oregon.
(b) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(c) Flagstaff, Arizona.
(d) Plainfield, New Jersey.

5. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Almond prices.
(b) Wheat prices.
(c) Cotton prices.
(d) Corn prices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

2. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

3. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?

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

5. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?

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