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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Flint, Michigan.
(b) Fargo, North Dakota.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Aurora, Illinois.

2. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?
(a) Use the same equipment.
(b) Report to work at the same time.
(c) Speak the same language.
(d) Follow the same rules.

3. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?
(a) James Yorke.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Robert May.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

4. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) A parameter.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Energy.

5. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Robert May born?

2. 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"?

3. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?

4. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

5. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Edward Lorenz described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? Where was he working at the time?

2. How is the relationship between meteorologists and computers described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

3. How is James Yorke described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"? What term did he coin?

4. What were the biggest issues with weather forecasting during Lorenz's time as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? How is the Butterfly Effect defined?

5. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," one of the biggest questions came to be how different parameters affected the ultimate destiny of a changing population. What was the answer to this?

6. When and where was the National Meteorological Center founded in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? What existed before it?

7. What variable changed the outcome in the experiment described by Thomas S. Kuhn in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

8. What was the early life of Benoit Mandelbrot like, as described by the author in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

9. How did Lorenz develop ways to reproduce complex behavior in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

10. How did Lorenz's work influence James Yorke in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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