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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 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.

2. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?
(a) Stephen Spender.
(b) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(c) James Gleick.
(d) Richard Feynman.

3. In what year did Benoit Mandelbrot recognize the ghost of an idea when he spotted a diagram charted out on the blackboard in Hendrik Houthakker's office?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1950.

4. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The U.S. Navy.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(d) The U.S. Coast Guard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?

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

4. 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?

5. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

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