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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal Mathematics.
(b) Royal McBee.
(c) Royal Information Systems.
(d) Royal Computing.

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

3. 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?
(a) Xerox.
(b) IBM.
(c) ProtoLife.
(d) Iterated Systems Incorporated.

4. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1900.

5. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Helium in a Box.
(d) Euclidean space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

2. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?

3. Where was James Yorke born?

4. 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?

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"?

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