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

2. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1947.

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) Cotton prices.
(c) Almond prices.
(d) Corn prices.

4. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Frantic.
(c) Pandamonium.
(d) Rambling.

5. Where was Robert May born?
(a) Sydney, Australia.
(b) Tokyo, Japan.
(c) Cairo, Egypt.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?

2. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

3. 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?

4. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

5. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?

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