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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 the most abundant element in the universe?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Hydrogen.
(c) Rhodium.
(d) Aluminum.

2. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?
(a) Xerox.
(b) IBM.
(c) ProtoLife.
(d) Iterated Systems Incorporated.

3. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?
(a) Butterfly effect.
(b) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(c) Physics.
(d) Biology.

4. What refers to the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history or behavior?
(a) Software visualization.
(b) Software metric.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

5. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?
(a) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Albert Libchaber.
(c) Leo Kadanoff.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

2. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?

3. When was James Yorke born?

4. 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"?

5. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

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