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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Turbulence.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Energy.
(d) Viscosity.

2. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1965.

3. 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) Enrico Fermi.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Stanislaw Ulam.

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."
(a) Botanists.
(b) Ecologists.
(c) Paleontologists.
(d) Geologists.

5. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) The University of Paris.
(c) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(d) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

2. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?

3. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

4. When was James Yorke born?

5. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?

(see the answer key)

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