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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Initial conditions."
(b) "Ideal conditions."
(c) "Random conditions."
(d) "Controlled conditions."

2. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Loyola University.

3. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?
(a) Butcher.
(b) Math teacher.
(c) Clothing wholesaler.
(d) Carpenter.

4. One of the implications of what theorem is that if a continuous discrete dynamical system on the real line has a periodic point of period 3, then it must have periodic points of every other period?
(a) Stevenson's theorem.
(b) Stronghorn's theorem.
(c) Skawinski's theorem.
(d) Sharkovskii's theorem.

5. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) Anchorage, Alaska.
(b) Omaha, Nebraska.
(c) Spearfish, South Dakota.
(d) Cincinnati, Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?

2. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?

3. Where is Stephen Smale from?

4. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

5. When was Robert May born?

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