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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 the book Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology published?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1980.

2. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?
(a) Tacoma, Washington.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) La Jolla, California.
(d) San Francisco, California.

3. One of the implications of what theorem is that if a continuous discrete dynamical system on the real line has a periodic point of period 3, then it must have periodic points of every other period?
(a) Stevenson's theorem.
(b) Stronghorn's theorem.
(c) Sharkovskii's theorem.
(d) Skawinski's theorem.

4. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) Anchorage, Alaska.
(b) Omaha, Nebraska.
(c) Cincinnati, Ohio.
(d) Spearfish, South Dakota.

5. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Period Three Implies Chaos."
(b) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
(c) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(d) "Physical Review Letters."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?

2. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?

3. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

4. What was Edward Spiegel's specialty, discussed in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective"?

5. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

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