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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?
(a) Huntsville, Alabama.
(b) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(c) Silver Spring, Maryland.
(d) Hot Springs, Arkansas.

2. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Paradigm shift.
(d) Fractal basin boundaries.

3. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?
(a) Poincare conjecture.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Fluid dynamics.
(d) Theoretical physics.

4. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?
(a) Physics.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Thermodynamics.

5. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Fargo, North Dakota.
(b) Flint, Michigan.
(c) Aurora, Illinois.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?

2. 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."

3. When was Edward Lorenz born?

4. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?

5. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?

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