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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. 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) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Michael Porter.
(c) Frederic Stout.
(d) Kenneth Jackson.

2. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Crete.
(c) London.
(d) Rome.

3. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
(a) Raymond Mohl.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Kingsley Davis.
(d) Kevin Lynch.

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

5. Who was the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Ibn Battuta.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

2. 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?

3. 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"?

4. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

5. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?

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