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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What research method involves the analysis of statistical data?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Number crunching.
(c) Political.
(d) Quantitative.

2. In "Choosing a Future," Murray examines education as a possible solution, noting that many barriers to a fair education had already been eliminated by what era?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s.

3. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the British system is more what?
(a) Central.
(b) Greedy.
(c) Inept.
(d) Corrupt.

4. Who wrote "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Ibn Battuta.
(c) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(d) W.E.B. Dubois.

5. Who wrote "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Robin Hambleton.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Gerry Stoker.
(d) Frank Lloyd Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?

2. Lewis Mumford presents the city as a collection of primary groups assembled together, with their physical organization determining levels of what?

3. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?

4. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?

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

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