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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Software visualization.
(b) Software metric.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Fractal compression.

2. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) Energy.
(b) Gradient.
(c) A parameter.
(d) Laminar flow.

3. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Stanislaw Ulam.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Harvey J. Gold.

4. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 22.
(b) 29.
(c) 35.
(d) 27.

5. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Prague.

Short Answer Questions

1. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?

2. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?

3. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?

4. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?

5. 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.

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