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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 fraction parameter.
(c) A multiplier parameter.
(d) A higher parameter.

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

4. 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) Paleontologists.
(b) Botanists.
(c) Geologists.
(d) Ecologists.

5. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Reading, England.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Dublin, Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

2. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

3. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?

4. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

5. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

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