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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. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) Postage stamps.
(b) Ink blots.
(c) Nature photographs.
(d) Playing cards.

2. 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) Stronghorn's theorem.
(b) Sharkovskii's theorem.
(c) Stevenson's theorem.
(d) Skawinski's theorem.

3. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Thermodynamics.

4. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?
(a) Hummingbird effect.
(b) Butterfly effect.
(c) Kangaroo effect.
(d) Pufferfish effect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?

2. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?

3. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact did The Structure of Scientific Revolutions have on the scientific community? What did Kuhn assert in the book?

2. What did Edward Lorenz develop in order to assist in working with computer technology in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? How did he feel about the future of forecasting?

3. How did Benoit Mandelbrot describe the ideal data source in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

4. What variable changed the outcome in the experiment described by Thomas S. Kuhn in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

5. How is Robert May described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"? What did his work center on?

6. When and where was the National Meteorological Center founded in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? What existed before it?

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

8. 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?

9. How is the relationship between meteorologists and computers described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

10. How is a Cantor set described in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

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