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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) 1951.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1960.

2. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?
(a) More.
(b) Ting.
(c) Cray.
(d) Bend.

3. 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?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Physics.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Physiology.

4. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) West Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Bangor, Maine.
(d) Atlantic City, New Jersey.

5. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Physiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

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

3. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?

4. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?

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"?

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