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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "How to Study Urban Political Power," the author writes that there have been two groups of researchers studying city politics: the pluralists, and who?
(a) The ruralists.
(b) The structuralists.
(c) The realists.
(d) The urbanists.

2. Who rejects economic and social controls and see politics as the study of systematic power in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
(a) The structuralists.
(b) The communists.
(c) The realists.
(d) The pluralists.

3. What term refers to a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order?
(a) Rank.
(b) Pecking order.
(c) Seniority.
(d) Hierarchy.

4. Who wrote "A Contemporary City"?
(a) Olmsted.
(b) Hambleton.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Le Corbusier.

5. What did Ebenezer Howard call the central area in his Utopian cities in "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"?
(a) The Green Obelisk.
(b) The Drum Circle.
(c) Crystal Palace.
(d) The Ivory Tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?

2. What kind of cities does Ebenezer Howard present as a protest against overcrowding?

3. When was "How to Study Urban Political Power" first published?

4. Who are the authors of "Cities and Uneven Economic Development"?

5. What does the author of "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" write advanced a democratic society, taking pressure off of different classes by giving them an area that they can all enjoy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three possible city plans are presented in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

2. What questions are posed in John Mollenkopf's "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

3. What does Oscar Lewis write about in the anthology? What are his theories?

4. What does John Kasarda concluted in "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch"?

5. What is discussed and proposed in "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?

6. How does John Mollenkopf define structuralists and pluralists in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

7. What case studies are presented in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

8. What are Saskia Sassen's views on development? What article discusses this?

9. What ideas do Frank S. So and Judith Getzel present in the anthology?

10. What does Patrick Geddes describe in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?

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