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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A higher parameter.
(b) A multiplier parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A fraction parameter.

2. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?
(a) Speak the same language.
(b) Report to work at the same time.
(c) Use the same equipment.
(d) Follow the same rules.

3. 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"?
(a) Nature photographs.
(b) Postage stamps.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Ink blots.

4. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?
(a) Hummingbird effect.
(b) Kangaroo effect.
(c) Pufferfish effect.
(d) Butterfly effect.

5. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?
(a) Bifurcation theory.
(b) Bifurcation cascade.
(c) Pattern formation.
(d) The superposition principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company did Michael Barnsley found in 1987?

2. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?

3. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?

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

5. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

(see the answer key)

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