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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 kind of cities does Ebenezer Howard present as a protest against overcrowding?
(a) Floating cities.
(b) Garden cities.
(c) Suicide cities.
(d) Flat cities.

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

3. How many boulevards would shoot off the city center in Ebenezer Howard's "The Town-Country Magnet"?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

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

5. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) 1500 A.D.
(b) 1500 B.C.
(c) 1400 B.C.
(d) 1300 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Keeping Themselves to Themselves," one of the main reasons for the failure of the relocation, the authors contest, is that the inhabitants moved into what kind of community?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Who wrote "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"?

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