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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 James Yorke born?
(a) Plainfield, New Jersey.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) Flagstaff, Arizona.
(d) Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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

3. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?
(a) A philosopher.
(b) A rebel.
(c) A monk.
(d) A martyr.

4. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
(a) Incommensurable.
(b) Indistinguishable.
(c) Incomprehensible.
(d) Incorrigible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

2. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

3. When was Edward Lorenz born?

4. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

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

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