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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?
(a) Computer army.
(b) Computer hardware.
(c) Computer virus.
(d) Computer model.

4. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Physical Review Letters."
(b) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(c) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
(d) "Period Three Implies Chaos."

5. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.

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

3. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

4. Who does Gleick quote as saying "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearily!" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

5. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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