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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Information theory.
2. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Thermodynamics.
3. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?
(a) No one will understand it.
(b) There are no rules.
(c) All the work is yet to be done.
(d) It requires a new language.
4. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Economics.
(c) Information theory.
(d) Physiology.
5. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal Mathematics.
(b) Royal McBee.
(c) Royal Information Systems.
(d) Royal Computing.
Short Answer Questions
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?"
2. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
3. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
4. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
5. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?
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