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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Gleick quote as saying "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearily!" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) James Yorke.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Stanislaw Ulam.

2. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(c) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(d) The University of Bonn.

3. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Paris.
(c) Johns Hopkins University.
(d) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

5. According to Gleick, Albert Libchaber had a similar background to who, living as a refugee during World War II?
(a) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(b) Leo Kadanoff.
(c) Michael Barnsley.
(d) Albert Libchaber.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Benoit Mandelbrot recognize the ghost of an idea when he spotted a diagram charted out on the blackboard in Hendrik Houthakker's office?

2. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?

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

4. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?

5. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?

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