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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. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?
(a) The philosophical epoch.
(b) The industrial epoch.
(c) The critical epoch.
(d) The musical epoch.

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

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

4. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Burton Pike.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Michael Young.

5. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?
(a) Jane Jacobs.
(b) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(c) Christopher Alexander.
(d) Michael Young.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was John Kasarda's "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" first published?

3. What group concedes that economic forces come into play, but that urban political theory also needs to draw on theories of the state in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

4. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?

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

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