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

2. What is the name of a startup company based in San Francisco, headed by co-founder and CEO Norman Packard focusing on the development of machine-learning, statistical model-based methodologies for evolutionary design of complex, high-throughput experiments?
(a) Iterated Systems Incorporated.
(b) ProtoLife.
(c) Xerox.
(d) IBM.

3. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A tree.
(b) A bathtub.
(c) A boulder.
(d) A snail.

4. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Jean Racine.
(c) Harry Swinney.
(d) Gustav Mahler.

5. When was Steven Smale born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

2. When was Norman Packard born?

3. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?

4. Where was David Ruelle born?

5. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?

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