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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Stanislaw Ulam.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

2. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?
(a) Loyola University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Harvard University.

3. 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?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Physics.
(d) Physiology.

4. In what year did Benoit Mandelbrot recognize the ghost of an idea when he spotted a diagram charted out on the blackboard in Hendrik Houthakker's office?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1957.

5. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(b) A turkey baster.
(c) A softball.
(d) A twenty-story high pendulum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Stephen Smale from?

2. When was Edward Lorenz born?

3. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?

4. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

5. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the role of chaos theory affect ecologists in the 1970s as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

2. How is the relationship between meteorologists and computers described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

3. How is Edward Lorenz described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? Where was he working at the time?

4. What was the early life of Benoit Mandelbrot like, as described by the author in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

5. When and where was the National Meteorological Center founded in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? What existed before it?

6. In Chapter 2, "Revolution" Gleick refers to the pendulum as being the laboratory mouse of chaos, the new science. What metaphorical examples does Gleick give for other great scientists in this chapter?

7. How is Robert May described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"? What did his work center on?

8. How is a Cantor set described in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

9. What two technologies contributed to the development of global forecasting in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

10. How did Lorenz's work influence James Yorke in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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