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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 was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(d) Frankfort, Kentucky.

2. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
(a) Richard Feynman.
(b) Edward Lorenz.
(c) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(d) Stephen Spender.

3. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?
(a) Use the same equipment.
(b) Report to work at the same time.
(c) Follow the same rules.
(d) Speak the same language.

4. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1932.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?

2. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

3. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?

4. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?

5. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?

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