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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 what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1970.

2. When was Robert May born?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1938.

3. 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) Confusing and secretive.
(c) Normal and rational.
(d) Predictable and stable.

4. Where did J. Doyne Farmer spend most of his early life and first develop an interest in physics?
(a) Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Silver City, New Mexico.
(c) Tampa, Florida.
(d) Buffalo, New York.

5. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. The University of California, Santa Cruz is one of how many campuses in the University of California?

2. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?

3. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

4. Where was Gustav Mahler born?

5. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

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