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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 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."
(a) Ecologists.
(b) Geologists.
(c) Botanists.
(d) Paleontologists.

2. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?
(a) Stephen Spender.
(b) James Gleick.
(c) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(d) Richard Feynman.

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

4. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) A parameter.
(b) Energy.
(c) Laminar flow.
(d) Gradient.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?

2. Where was Robert May born?

3. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

4. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

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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