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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 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Corn prices.
(b) Wheat prices.
(c) Cotton prices.
(d) Almond prices.

2. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?
(a) James Gleick.
(b) Richard Feynman.
(c) Stephen Spender.
(d) Thomas S. Kuhn.

3. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Physical Review Letters."
(b) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(c) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
(d) "Period Three Implies Chaos."

4. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) West Hartford, Connecticut.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

5. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(b) The U.S. Navy.
(c) The Interior Department.
(d) The U.S. Coast Guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

2. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

3. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?

4. Where was Robert May born?

5. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

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