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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 what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1948.

2. 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.
(a) Incommensurable.
(b) Indistinguishable.
(c) Incorrigible.
(d) Incomprehensible.

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

5. 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"?
(a) Nature photographs.
(b) Ink blots.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Postage stamps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?

2. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?

3. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?

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?

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

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