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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Evolution of Cities.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Political.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Quantitative.

2. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Ottomans.
(d) The Gods.

3. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Kenneth Jackson.
(b) Frederic Stout.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Michael Porter.

4. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1950.

5. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Democratic voting.
(c) The rule of the King.
(d) Community organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

2. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?

3. The editors write in the Introduction from the Editors that their students have asked for the past how many years what the best writings in urban development are?

4. What civilization's community was more geographically centered, and citizens were expected to contribute to the justice system, seeing it as their community duty according to the author of "The Polis"?

5. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?

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