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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?

2. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?

3. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

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

5. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lorenz's work influence James Yorke in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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

3. How is Edward Lorenz described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? Where was he working at the time?

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

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

6. In Chapter 2, "Revolution" Gleick refers to the pendulum as being the laboratory mouse of chaos, the new science. What metaphorical examples does Gleick give for other great scientists in this chapter?

7. How did the role of chaos theory affect ecologists in the 1970s as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Benoit Mandelbrot's work for International Business Machines Corporation. When was IBM founded and how was Mandelbrot involved in its evolution?

Essay Topic 2

Define and discuss linear and nonlinear science, period-doublings and chaos. How did the scientists from the book contribute to these concepts?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the psychological experiment described by Thomas S. Kuhn in Chapter 2, "Revolution." What discoveries were made through the work?

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