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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) A coin.
(b) A deck of cards.
(c) A pair of dice.
(d) A compass.

2. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

3. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Jean Racine.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Harry Swinney.
(d) Gustav Mahler.

4. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Software visualization.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Fractal compression.

5. 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?
(a) Software visualization.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

6. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?
(a) Energy.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Viscosity.
(d) Turbulence.

7. At what institution did Albert Libchaber become a professor of physics in 1991?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) Caltech.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

8. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

9. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) Hartford, Connecticut.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(d) Frankfort, Kentucky.

10. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1986.

11. Where did Albert Libchaber earn a M.S. degree in physics?
(a) The University of Bonn.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(d) The University of Illinois.

12. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?
(a) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(b) Fractals Everywhere.
(c) Physical Review Letters.
(d) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.

13. 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?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Gradient.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?

2. Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural?

3. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?

4. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?

5. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?

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