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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 interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Thermodynamics.

2. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(c) The University of Paris.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

3. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1915.

4. Where was James Yorke born?
(a) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(b) Plainfield, New Jersey.
(c) Portland, Oregon.
(d) Flagstaff, Arizona.

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) 1973.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1974.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Steven Smale born?

2. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

3. 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.

4. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

5. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?

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