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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 Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?
(a) "Cantor dust".
(b) "Turbulence".
(c) "Fractals".
(d) "Incongruity".

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

3. What refers to the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value or between two or more different states?
(a) Physics.
(b) Revolutions.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Oscillation.

4. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Fluid dynamics.
(d) Physics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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

3. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?

4. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?

5. Where was Gustav Mahler born?

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