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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 refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole?
(a) Oscillation.
(b) Revolutions.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Gradient.

2. When was Steven Smale born?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1943.

3. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Viscosity.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

4. According to Gleick, Albert Libchaber had a similar background to who, living as a refugee during World War II?
(a) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Michael Barnsley.
(c) Leo Kadanoff.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

5. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(b) Michael Barnsley.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Albert Libchaber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

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

3. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?

4. When was Albert Libchaber born?

5. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

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