Chaos: Making a New Science Multiple Choice Test Questions

Multiple Choice Questions

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Multiple Choice - Chapters 1-2

1. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
a) Thomas S. Kuhn.
b) Edward Lorenz.
c) Richard Feynman.
d) Stephen Spender.

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

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

4. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in...
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