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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Physics.

3. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?
(a) Cray.
(b) Bend.
(c) More.
(d) Ting.

4. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?
(a) "Turbulence".
(b) "Cantor dust".
(c) "Fractals".
(d) "Incongruity".

5. Where was James Yorke born?
(a) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(b) Plainfield, New Jersey.
(c) Flagstaff, Arizona.
(d) Portland, Oregon.

6. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
(a) Richard Feynman.
(b) Edward Lorenz.
(c) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(d) Stephen Spender.

7. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?
(a) ProtoLife.
(b) Iterated Systems Incorporated.
(c) IBM.
(d) Xerox.

8. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Biology.
(d) Philosophy.

9. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A bathtub.
(b) A tree.
(c) A boulder.
(d) A snail.

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

11. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1941.

12. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) The space satellite and digital computer.
(b) The automobile and space stellite.
(c) The television and automobile.
(d) The digital computer and television.

13. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Information theory.
(c) Economics.
(d) Physiology.

14. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A softball.
(b) A turkey baster.
(c) A twenty-story high pendulum.
(d) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.

15. When was Steven Smale born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1930.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

2. Where was Robert May born?

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

4. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?

5. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

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