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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."
(a) Paleontologists.
(b) Ecologists.
(c) Geologists.
(d) Botanists.

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

3. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) Lisbon, Portugal.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Milan, Italy.
(d) Reykjavík, Iceland.

4. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The U.S. Navy.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(d) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?
(a) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(b) Fractals Everywhere.
(c) Physical Review Letters.
(d) Period Three Implies Chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

2. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

3. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?

4. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

5. When was Edward Lorenz born?

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