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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?
(a) Commonality.
(b) Diversity.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Prediction.

2. In Chapter 11, "Chaos and Beyond," the author asserts that systems behave in simple ways; as long as systems could be reduced to a few perfectly determined, perfectly understood laws, the long term behavior of the systems would be what?
(a) Random and changing.
(b) Normal and rational.
(c) Confusing and secretive.
(d) Predictable and stable.

3. What was Edward Spiegel's specialty, discussed in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective"?
(a) "Cosmic arrhythmias."
(b) "Meteorological forecasting."
(c) "Black holes."
(d) "String theory."

4. When was Norman Packard born?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1939.

5. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Conrad Aiken.
(c) Michael Barnsley.
(d) Leo Kadanoff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company was founded in New Mexico in March 1991 by J. Doyne Farmer, Norman Packard and James McGill?

2. What is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations?

3. Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural?

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

5. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

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