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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) A lower parameter.
(b) A higher parameter.
(c) A fraction parameter.
(d) A multiplier parameter.

2. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?
(a) Bland science.
(b) Science of commonality.
(c) Normal science.
(d) Psuedoscience.

3. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?
(a) Yorktown Heights, New York.
(b) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

4. 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.
(a) Incorrigible.
(b) Incommensurable.
(c) Indistinguishable.
(d) Incomprehensible.

5. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Aurora, Illinois.
(b) Fargo, North Dakota.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Flint, Michigan.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

5. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?

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