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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Controlled conditions."
(b) "Ideal conditions."
(c) "Initial conditions."
(d) "Random conditions."

2. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Gustav Mahler.
(b) Harry Swinney.
(c) Jean Racine.
(d) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

3. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Biology.

4. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Energy.
(c) Dynamic equilibrium.
(d) Euclidean space.

5. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?
(a) Boundary layer.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Euclidean space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the spread of momentum between particles of matter, usually in the liquid state?

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

3. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

4. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?

5. In physics and fluid mechanics, what refers to the layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where effects of viscosity of the fluid are considered in detail?

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