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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?
(a) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Dr. Faustus.
(d) Lewis F. Richardson.

2. What occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) Momentum diffusion.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Theoretical physics.

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

4. Where was Gustav Mahler born?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) Italy.
(d) Austria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?

2. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?

3. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?

4. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

5. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?

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