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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Steven Smale born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1930.

2. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) Nümbrecht, Germany.
(b) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Nimbin, Australia.

3. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) The Julia Set.
(b) The Martha Set.
(c) The Valerie Set.
(d) The Karen Set.

4. Where is Michael Barnsley from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Poland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) England.

5. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Reading, England.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Dublin, Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Edward Spiegel's specialty, discussed in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective"?

2. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

3. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?

4. When William Burke returned to Santa Cruz in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective," he handed who a piece of paper to run through the analog computer?

5. Robert Stenson Shaw would eventually take his enthusiasm for his studies and form what group?

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