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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?
(a) Frantic.
(b) Rambling.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Pandamonium.

2. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?
(a) A rebel.
(b) A monk.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A martyr.

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) "Incongruity".
(b) "Fractals".
(c) "Cantor dust".
(d) "Turbulence".

4. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) "Period Three Implies Chaos".
(b) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(c) "Physical Review Letters".
(d) "Fractals Everywhere".

5. Where was Robert May born?
(a) Cairo, Egypt.
(b) Tokyo, Japan.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Sydney, Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?

5. Who is attributed with the following quote in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs": "The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior"?

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