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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Revolutions.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

2. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A snail.
(b) A boulder.
(c) A bathtub.
(d) A tree.

3. 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. Coast Guard.
(c) The U.S. Navy.
(d) The Interior Department.

4. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2006.
(d) 1995.

5. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 27.
(b) 22.
(c) 35.
(d) 29.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first major paper published in the prestigious American Journal based on the work of the Santa Cruz Chaos Cabal?

2. When did Robert Stenson Shaw arrive at the University of California at Santa Cruz?

3. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

4. Where was William Burke born?

5. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?

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