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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 branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Bifurcation theory.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Theoretical physics.

2. 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"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Stanislaw Ulam.
(d) James Yorke.

3. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Reading, England.

4. When was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1917.

5. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(b) "Period Three Implies Chaos".
(c) "Fractals Everywhere".
(d) "Physical Review Letters".

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

2. When was Benoit Mandelbrot 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. 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"?

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