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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 was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1977.

2. When was Albert Libchaber born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1916.

3. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 35.
(b) 29.
(c) 22.
(d) 27.

4. When did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley at a conference in Corsica?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1979.

5. What is the science of the function of living systems?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Information theory.
(c) Neuroscience.
(d) Physiology.

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. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

3. What was the first major paper published in the prestigious American Journal based on the work of the Santa Cruz Chaos Cabal?

4. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?

5. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

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