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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A turkey baster.
(b) A softball.
(c) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(d) A twenty-story high pendulum.

2. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) Spearfish, South Dakota.
(b) Cincinnati, Ohio.
(c) Omaha, Nebraska.
(d) Anchorage, Alaska.

3. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?
(a) Commonality.
(b) Dependence.
(c) Diversity.
(d) Prediction.

4. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The Interior Department.
(b) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(c) The U.S. Navy.
(d) The U.S. Coast Guard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?

2. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

3. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?

4. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

5. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

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