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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 his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
(a) Incommensurable.
(b) Incomprehensible.
(c) Indistinguishable.
(d) Incorrigible.

2. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1952.

3. When was J. Doyne Farmer born?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1944.

4. In Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective," the author writes, "Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably" what?
(a) Partial.
(b) Zero.
(c) Total.
(d) Infinite.

5. At what institution did Albert Libchaber become a professor of physics in 1991?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Caltech.

Short Answer Questions

1. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?

2. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

3. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?

4. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

5. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?

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