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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Urban Society and Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?
(a) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(b) Christopher Alexander.
(c) Jane Jacobs.
(d) Michael Young.

2. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) Forbes.
(c) Town Planning Review.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

3. When was "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1928.

4. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?
(a) H.D.F. Kitto.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Ibn Battuta.

5. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Political.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Quantitative.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?

2. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?

3. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?

4. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?

5. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?

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