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

2. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Computer hardware.
(c) Computer virus.
(d) Computer army.

3. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Lisbon, Portugal.
(c) Reykjavík, Iceland.
(d) Milan, Italy.

4. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Helium in a Box.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Cantor dust.

5. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

2. 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?

3. When was Steven Smale born?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

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