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

2. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?
(a) Physical Review Letters.
(b) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(c) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(d) Fractals Everywhere.

3. What is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Bifurcation theory.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Theoretical physics.

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

5. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. When was Albert Libchaber born?

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"?

4. 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?"

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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