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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?
(a) Ting.
(b) Bend.
(c) More.
(d) Cray.

2. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Math teacher.
(c) Clothing wholesaler.
(d) Butcher.

3. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(b) Nonlinear system.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Butterfly effect.

4. 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) James Gleick.
(b) Richard Feynman.
(c) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(d) Stephen Spender.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

2. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?

3. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?

4. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?

5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?

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