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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) Butterfly effect.
(b) Pufferfish effect.
(c) Hummingbird effect.
(d) Kangaroo effect.

2. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?
(a) Writer.
(b) Housekeeper.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Nurse.

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

4. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Prague.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?

2. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?

3. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

4. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

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

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