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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author of "The Black Underclass" argues that upwardly mobile men have moved out of poor black communities, depriving these communities of what?
(a) Potential leaders.
(b) Congressmen.
(c) Father figures.
(d) Priests.

2. 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?
(a) Essential.
(b) Without limit.
(c) Interrelated.
(d) Unrelated.

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

4. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?
(a) 1475.
(b) 1467.
(c) 1471.
(d) 1470.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

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

3. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."

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

5. Who discuss the implications of social complexities and question what the advantage of interests implies, according to the author of "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

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