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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Aurora, Illinois.
(c) Fargo, North Dakota.
(d) Flint, Michigan.

3. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1900.

4. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1970.

5. 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"?
(a) Ink blots.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Postage stamps.
(d) Nature photographs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?

2. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?

3. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

4. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

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?

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