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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Unchanging.
(b) Stable.
(c) Unstable.
(d) Changing.

5. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?
(a) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
(d) Yorktown Heights, New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?

3. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"

5. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.

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