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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?
(a) Raymond Mohl.
(b) Larry S. Bourne.
(c) Kevin Lynch.
(d) Frederic Stout.

2. What kind of cities does Ebenezer Howard present as a protest against overcrowding?
(a) Suicide cities.
(b) Flat cities.
(c) Floating cities.
(d) Garden cities.

3. What group concedes that economic forces come into play, but that urban political theory also needs to draw on theories of the state in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
(a) The futurists.
(b) The pluralists.
(c) The structuralists.
(d) The communists.

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?
(a) Clearly drawn.
(b) Vastly different.
(c) Unimaginable.
(d) Fuzzy.

5. Who does LeGate write developed a "broken window" theory and community policing ideas in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Michael Porter and James Q. Wilson.
(b) James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling.
(c) Michael Porter and William Julius Wilson.
(d) George L. Kelling and William Julius Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?

2. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

3. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

4. When were "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" first published?

5. When was Friedrich Engels born?

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