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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 was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?
(a) Writer.
(b) Housekeeper.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Nurse.

2. 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"?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Nature photographs.
(c) Postage stamps.
(d) Ink blots.

3. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
(a) Linear system.
(b) Nonlinear system.
(c) Hyperlinear system.
(d) Thermolinear system.

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

5. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Edward Lorenz born?

2. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?

3. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

4. When was Steven Smale born?

5. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?

(see the answer key)

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