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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 automobile and space stellite.
(c) The space satellite and digital computer.
(d) The television and automobile.

2. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
(a) Hyperlinear system.
(b) Linear system.
(c) Nonlinear system.
(d) Thermolinear system.

3. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Information theory.
(c) Economics.
(d) Chaos theory.

4. 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"?
(a) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(b) James Gleick.
(c) Richard Feynman.
(d) Stephen Spender.

5. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Loyola University.
(d) Stanford University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?

2. When was Edward Lorenz born?

3. 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?

4. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

5. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"

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