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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Software visualization.

2. The University of California, Santa Cruz is one of how many campuses in the University of California?
(a) 10.
(b) 24.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

3. What is the atomic number of helium?
(a) 2.
(b) 14.
(c) 21.
(d) 7.

4. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
(a) Indistinguishable.
(b) Incommensurable.
(c) Incorrigible.
(d) Incomprehensible.

5. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"?
(a) Harry L. Swinney.
(b) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(c) Lewis F. Richardson.
(d) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

3. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

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

5. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

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