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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Psuedoscience.
(b) Normal science.
(c) Bland science.
(d) Science of commonality.

2. When was Robert May born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1938.

3. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?
(a) Butterfly effect.
(b) Hummingbird effect.
(c) Kangaroo effect.
(d) Pufferfish effect.

4. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Robert May.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) James Yorke.

5. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Revolutions.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

2. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

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

4. Who does Gleick quote as saying "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearily!" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

5. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?

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