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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Physical Review Letters."
(b) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(c) "Period Three Implies Chaos."
(d) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."

2. 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) Stephen Spender.
(c) Edward Lorenz.
(d) Richard Feynman.

3. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1960.

4. 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) Loyola University.
(d) Stanford University.

5. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Controlled conditions."
(b) "Random conditions."
(c) "Initial conditions."
(d) "Ideal conditions."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

2. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?

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

4. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?

5. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?

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