1. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Revolutions.
(d) Fractal basin boundaries.

2. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal Mathematics.
(b) Royal McBee.
(c) Royal Computing.
(d) Royal Information Systems.

3. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?
(a) No-slip condition.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Information theory.
(d) Poincare conjecture.

4. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?
(a) "Fractals Everywhere".
(b) "Physical Review Letters".
(c) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(d) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?

3. When was Edward Lorenz born?

4. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

5. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?

(see the answer key)

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