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Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz

James Gleick
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Chaos.

Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz

James Gleick
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Chaos.

Take our free Chaos quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"? (from Chapters 5-6)

2.

What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole? (from Chapters 5-6)

3.

What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation? (from Chapters 5-6)

4.

Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 10, "Inner Rhythms": "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models"? (from chapters 9-11)

5.

What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals? (from chapters 7-8)

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