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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Ideal conditions."
(b) "Controlled conditions."
(c) "Initial conditions."
(d) "Random conditions."

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

3. 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" _______________?
(a) "Cantor dust".
(b) "Turbulence".
(c) "Incongruity".
(d) "Fractals".

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

5. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Loyola University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

2. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

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?"

4. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?

5. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?

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