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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 was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) West Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

2. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Prague.

3. When was Steven Smale born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1943.

4. 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) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Leo Kadanoff.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

5. According to the author, "to play the chaos game quickly, you need a computer with a graphics screen and a random number generator, but in principle a sheet of paper and" what will work as well?
(a) A compass.
(b) A pair of dice.
(c) A deck of cards.
(d) A coin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?

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. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

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

5. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?

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