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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) Nonlinear system.
(d) Butterfly effect.

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

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

4. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A boulder.
(b) A snail.
(c) A bathtub.
(d) A tree.

5. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) Energy.
(b) Laminar flow.
(c) Gradient.
(d) A parameter.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?

2. 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" _______________?

3. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

4. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

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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