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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Prague.
(b) Moscow.
(c) London.
(d) Amsterdam.

2. 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) Kangaroo effect.
(b) Butterfly effect.
(c) Pufferfish effect.
(d) Hummingbird effect.

3. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
(a) Richard Feynman.
(b) Edward Lorenz.
(c) Stephen Spender.
(d) Thomas S. Kuhn.

4. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Wheat prices.
(b) Corn prices.
(c) Cotton prices.
(d) Almond prices.

5. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A boulder.
(b) A bathtub.
(c) A snail.
(d) A tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

2. Where was Robert May born?

3. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?

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

5. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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