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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 lower parameter.
(b) A fraction parameter.
(c) A higher parameter.
(d) A multiplier parameter.

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

3. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Corn prices.
(b) Wheat prices.
(c) Cotton prices.
(d) Almond prices.

4. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1944.

5. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Leo Kadanoff.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?

2. Who does Gleick quote as saying "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearily!" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

3. Where was James Yorke born?

4. 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"?

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

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