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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) The Taylor-Couette flow.
(b) Bifurcation cascade.
(c) Turbulent flow.
(d) Laminar flow.

2. How old was Robert Stenson Shaw when he arrived at the University of California at Santa Cruz?
(a) 26.
(b) 31.
(c) 19.
(d) 22.

3. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?
(a) Dr. Faustus.
(b) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(c) Lewis F. Richardson.
(d) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

4. When was the University of California, Santa Cruz founded?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1973.

5. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) La Jolla, California.
(d) Tacoma, Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

2. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?

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

4. Bernardo Huberman was a research fellow at what research center which had been part of the Santa Cruz group?

5. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?

(see the answer key)

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