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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Michael Barnsley from?
(a) England.
(b) Poland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Spain.

2. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Reykjavík, Iceland.
(c) Milan, Italy.
(d) Lisbon, Portugal.

3. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A multiplier parameter.
(b) A fraction parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A higher parameter.

4. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?
(a) Momentum diffusion.
(b) Turbulent flow.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Chaos theory.

5. Where was James Yorke born?
(a) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(b) Flagstaff, Arizona.
(c) Portland, Oregon.
(d) Plainfield, New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Albert Libchaber graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from what institution?

3. 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"?

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

5. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?

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