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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(b) James Gleick.
(c) Richard Feynman.
(d) Stephen Spender.

2. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Physiology.

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) 1957.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1950.

4. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) West Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(d) Bangor, Maine.

5. 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) Theoretical physics.
(c) Bifurcation theory.
(d) Thermodynamics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

2. When was Edward Lorenz born?

3. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?

4. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.

5. Where was Robert May born?

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