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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 is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?
(a) Physics.
(b) Biology.
(c) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(d) Butterfly effect.

2. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Controlled conditions."
(b) "Ideal conditions."
(c) "Random conditions."
(d) "Initial conditions."

3. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) Spearfish, South Dakota.
(b) Cincinnati, Ohio.
(c) Anchorage, Alaska.
(d) Omaha, Nebraska.

4. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?
(a) Writer.
(b) Housekeeper.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Nurse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?

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

3. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

4. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

5. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.

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