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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Nonlinear system.

2. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1915.

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

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

5. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?
(a) James Gleick.
(b) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(c) Stephen Spender.
(d) Richard Feynman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Robert May born?

2. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?

3. When was Robert May born?

4. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

5. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

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