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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 statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?
(a) Commonality.
(b) Prediction.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Diversity.

2. An attractor is informally described as what if it has non-integer dimension?
(a) Acute.
(b) Normal.
(c) Obtuse.
(d) Strange.

3. Where is Bernardo Huberman originally from?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Peru.
(d) Argentina.

4. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?
(a) Biology.
(b) Physics.
(c) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(d) Butterfly effect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What company did Michael Barnsley found in 1987?

2. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

3. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?

4. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?

5. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?

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