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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?
(a) A multiplier parameter.
(b) A higher parameter.
(c) A fraction parameter.
(d) A lower parameter.

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

3. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(b) "Period Three Implies Chaos."
(c) "Physical Review Letters."
(d) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."

4. What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Information theory.
(d) Fractal compression.

5. When was Harry L. Swinney born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1924.

Short Answer Questions

1. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?

2. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?

3. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

4. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

5. According to the author, "to play the chaos game quickly, you need a computer with a graphics screen and a random number generator, but in principle a sheet of paper and" what will work as well?

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