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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 lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A fraction parameter.
(b) A multiplier parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A higher parameter.

2. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Stanislaw Ulam.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Harvey J. Gold.

3. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A turkey baster.
(b) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(c) A twenty-story high pendulum.
(d) A softball.

4. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1915.

5. When was Robert May born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?

2. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?

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. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?

5. 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?

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