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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Perspectives on Urban Form and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is described with the Church initially a factor in its boundaries, though later Charlemagne grew the empire in "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Rome.

2. 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?
(a) 28.
(b) 35.
(c) 42.
(d) 37.

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

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) Unimaginable.
(c) Vastly different.
(d) Fuzzy.

5. When was Friedrich Engels born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1822.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?

2. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?

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

4. According to Ernest W. Burgess what is central to the expansion of cities?

5. What refers to the city areas or "parts" of a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

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