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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 Mathematics.
(b) Royal Computing.
(c) Royal Information Systems.
(d) Royal McBee.

2. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1912.

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

4. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Fractal basin boundaries.
(b) Revolutions.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Cantor dust.

5. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?
(a) Paradigm shift.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Fractal basin boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

2. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

3. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

4. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?

5. 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.

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