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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) Spearfish, South Dakota.
(b) Anchorage, Alaska.
(c) Omaha, Nebraska.
(d) Cincinnati, Ohio.

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

3. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Revolutions.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?

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

3. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

4. Where was Robert May born?

5. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

(see the answer key)

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