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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(b) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(c) The U.S. Navy.
(d) The Interior Department.

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

3. 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?"
(a) Stephen Spender.
(b) Edward Lorenz.
(c) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(d) Richard Feynman.

4. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Information theory.
(d) Philosophy.

5. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) Reading, England.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Paris, France.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

3. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

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

5. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?

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