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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. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Paths.
(b) Homes.
(c) Emergency services.
(d) Businesses.

2. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?
(a) James Q. Wilson.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Kevin Lynch.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

3. Who wrote "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"?
(a) Oscar Lewis and Christopher Alexander.
(b) Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
(c) Peter Willmott and Christopher Alexander.
(d) Oscar Lewis and Peter Willmott.

4. When was John Kasarda's "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" first published?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1993.

5. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?
(a) My First Goat.
(b) The Long Road.
(c) Dinner With Mabel.
(d) The Bell Curve.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Nature in the Metropolis," Ian McHarg writes about the best way to construct a city in harmony with what?

2. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?

3. When was "What is a City?" first published?

4. What is the fourth of the four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

5. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?

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