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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 was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal Computing.
(b) Royal Information Systems.
(c) Royal Mathematics.
(d) Royal McBee.

2. When was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1921.

3. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) The digital computer and television.
(b) The television and automobile.
(c) The automobile and space stellite.
(d) The space satellite and digital computer.

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 U.S. Coast Guard.
(c) The U.S. Navy.
(d) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

5. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?
(a) Bland science.
(b) Normal science.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Psuedoscience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

2. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

3. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

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

5. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?

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