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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?
(a) Computer virus.
(b) Computer army.
(c) Computer hardware.
(d) Computer model.

3. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Information theory.
(c) Biology.
(d) Philosophy.

4. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Physics.
(d) Fluid dynamics.

5. 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) Biology.
(b) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer 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?

2. When was Edward Lorenz born?

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

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

5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?

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