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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.

In physics and fluid mechanics, what refers to the layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where effects of viscosity of the fluid are considered in detail? (from Chapters 5-6)

2.

Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural? (from chapters 7-8)

3.

Where was J. Doyne Farmer born? (from chapters 9-11)

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 was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father? (from Chapters 3-4)

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