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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(d) The U.S. Navy.

2. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Stanislaw Ulam.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

3. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?
(a) All the work is yet to be done.
(b) There are no rules.
(c) It requires a new language.
(d) No one will understand it.

4. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) Bifurcation cascade.
(c) Turbulent flow.
(d) The Taylor-Couette flow.

5. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?
(a) Robert May.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) James Yorke.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

2. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?

3. When was Robert May born?

4. Where is Stephen Smale from?

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

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