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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 is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Economics.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Physiology.

2. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Writer.

3. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) West Hartford, Connecticut.

4. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?
(a) A higher parameter.
(b) A multiplier parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A fraction parameter.

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?
(a) Bifurcation cascade.
(b) Pattern formation.
(c) The superposition principle.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?

2. 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?

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

4. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

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"?

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