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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 pair of dice.
(b) A compass.
(c) A coin.
(d) A deck of cards.

2. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Harvey J. Gold.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Stanislaw Ulam.

3. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Gradient.

4. How old was Robert Stenson Shaw when he arrived at the University of California at Santa Cruz?
(a) 31.
(b) 22.
(c) 26.
(d) 19.

5. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Flint, Michigan.
(b) Fargo, North Dakota.
(c) Aurora, Illinois.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

2. When did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley at a conference in Corsica?

3. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?

4. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?

5. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?

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