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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, "Chaos and Beyond," the author asserts that systems behave in simple ways; as long as systems could be reduced to a few perfectly determined, perfectly understood laws, the long term behavior of the systems would be what?
(a) Normal and rational.
(b) Confusing and secretive.
(c) Predictable and stable.
(d) Random and changing.

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

3. Where was Gustav Mahler born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Austria.
(c) France.
(d) Canada.

4. While Bernardo Huberman was giving a lecture at the National Institutes of Health, he began to notice that there was what among the people in his audience?
(a) A religion gap.
(b) A mathematical gap.
(c) A gender gap.
(d) A communication gap.

5. 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 fraction parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A multiplier parameter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.

2. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, J. Doyne Farmer studied chaos theory and the physics of what?

3. When was Steven Smale born?

4. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?

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