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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 refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?
(a) Pufferfish effect.
(b) Hummingbird effect.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Kangaroo effect.

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

3. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1915.

4. 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.

5. 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. Navy.
(b) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(c) The Interior Department.
(d) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

2. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

3. Where was Robert May born?

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

5. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

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