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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?
(a) Dr. Faustus.
(b) Lewis F. Richardson.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Mitchell Feigenbaum.

2. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A higher parameter.
(b) A multiplier parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A fraction parameter.

3. What refers to a closed trajectory in phase space having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches negative infinity?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Period doubling bifurcation.
(d) Limit-cycle.

4. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

5. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Unstable.
(b) Stable.
(c) Changing.
(d) Unchanging.

Short Answer Questions

1. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?

2. What is the scientific study of the nervous system?

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

4. What refers to the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history or behavior?

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

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