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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A higher parameter.
(b) A fraction parameter.
(c) A multiplier parameter.
(d) A lower parameter.

3. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1971.

4. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) The Martha Set.
(b) The Valerie Set.
(c) The Julia Set.
(d) The Karen Set.

5. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.

2. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?

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. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?

5. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

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