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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1921.

2. In what year did Benoit Mandelbrot recognize the ghost of an idea when he spotted a diagram charted out on the blackboard in Hendrik Houthakker's office?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1954.

3. 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?
(a) Bland science.
(b) Science of commonality.
(c) Psuedoscience.
(d) Normal science.

4. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1924.

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"?
(a) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(b) Stanislaw Ulam.
(c) Steven Smale.
(d) Harvey J. Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

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

3. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

4. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

5. 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" _______________?

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