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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
(a) Incommensurable.
(b) Incorrigible.
(c) Incomprehensible.
(d) Indistinguishable.

2. 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"?
(a) Ink blots.
(b) Nature photographs.
(c) Postage stamps.
(d) Playing cards.

3. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?
(a) Bland science.
(b) Normal science.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Psuedoscience.

4. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal Computing.
(b) Royal Mathematics.
(c) Royal Information Systems.
(d) Royal McBee.

5. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Initial conditions."
(b) "Controlled conditions."
(c) "Ideal conditions."
(d) "Random conditions."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

2. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

3. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?

4. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

5. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

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