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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Pandamonium.
(c) Rambling.
(d) Frantic.

2. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) West Hartford, Connecticut.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

3. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Initial conditions."
(b) "Controlled conditions."
(c) "Random conditions."
(d) "Ideal conditions."

4. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1949.

5. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Computer hardware.
(c) Computer virus.
(d) Computer army.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

2. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

3. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Benoit Mandelbrot and Hendrik Houthakker agree on about the chart in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

2. What was the early life of Benoit Mandelbrot like, as described by the author in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

3. How is James Yorke described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"? What term did he coin?

4. What role do computers and mathematical equations play in ecology and biology as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

5. What two technologies contributed to the development of global forecasting in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

6. What psychological experiment does Thomas S. Kuhn describe in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

7. Describe the weather simulator discussed in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect." What weather conditions did it create?

8. How did Lorenz develop ways to reproduce complex behavior in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

9. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," one of the biggest questions came to be how different parameters affected the ultimate destiny of a changing population. What was the answer to this?

10. What led to Benoit Mandelbrot's epiphany in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"? Where was Benoit Mandelbrot working at the time?

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