1. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?
(a) Paradigm shift.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Theoretical physics.

2. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Jean Racine.
(b) Gustav Mahler.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Harry Swinney.

3. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
(a) Jerry Gollub.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Gustav Mahler.
(d) Dr. Faustus.

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

5. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Wheat prices.
(b) Corn prices.
(c) Almond prices.
(d) Cotton prices.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs": "The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior"?

2. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?

3. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

4. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

5. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?

(see the answer key)

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