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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(b) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(c) The University of Bonn.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

2. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Prague.
(b) London.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Amsterdam.

3. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) The television and automobile.
(b) The space satellite and digital computer.
(c) The digital computer and television.
(d) The automobile and space stellite.

4. When did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley at a conference in Corsica?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1979.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

2. In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior?

3. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?

4. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

5. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?

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