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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Robert May born?
(a) Tokyo, Japan.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Cairo, Egypt.
(d) Sydney, Australia.

2. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) West Hartford, Connecticut.

3. 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) Postage stamps.
(b) Ink blots.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Nature photographs.

4. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Helium in a Box.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Cantor dust.

5. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) The automobile and space stellite.
(b) The digital computer and television.
(c) The space satellite and digital computer.
(d) The television and automobile.

6. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.
(a) Parameter.
(b) Fraction.
(c) Divisor.
(d) Paradigm.

7. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1915.

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

9. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?
(a) "Fractals Everywhere".
(b) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(c) "Physical Review Letters".
(d) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".

10. When was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1924.

11. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Loyola University.

12. 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) Physiology.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Physics.

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

14. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?
(a) "Turbulence".
(b) "Incongruity".
(c) "Fractals".
(d) "Cantor dust".

15. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Algorithm model.
(c) Fraction model.
(d) Mathematical model.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?

2. When was Robert May born?

3. 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"?

4. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?

5. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

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