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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 control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Unstable.
(b) Stable.
(c) Changing.
(d) Unchanging.

2. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) The Valerie Set.
(b) The Karen Set.
(c) The Julia Set.
(d) The Martha Set.

3. In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior?
(a) Behavioral maps.
(b) Space-time maps.
(c) Chaotic maps.
(d) Stability maps.

4. According to Gleick, Albert Libchaber had a similar background to who, living as a refugee during World War II?
(a) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Michael Barnsley.
(c) Leo Kadanoff.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

5. When was the book Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology published?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1974.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?

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

3. What is the scientific study of the nervous system?

4. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?

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

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