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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Robert Stenson Shaw arrive at the University of California at Santa Cruz?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1972.

2. What was the first major paper published in the prestigious American Journal based on the work of the Santa Cruz Chaos Cabal?
(a) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(b) "Physical Review Letters".
(c) "Period Three Implies Chaos".
(d) "Fractals Everywhere".

3. How many equations were on the piece of paper William Burke wanted to run through the analog computer in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective"?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. 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 lower parameter.
(b) A fraction parameter.
(c) A higher parameter.
(d) A multiplier parameter.

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

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. What is the atomic number of helium?

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

4. From where had Robert Stenson Shaw graduated when he arrived at the University of California at Santa Cruz?

5. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?

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