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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A multiplier parameter.
(b) A fraction parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A higher parameter.

2. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1960.

3. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?
(a) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(b) Physics.
(c) Biology.
(d) Butterfly effect.

4. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Fractal basin boundaries.
(b) Revolutions.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?

2. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

3. Who does Gleick quote as saying "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearily!" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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

5. When was Steven Smale born?

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