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

2. When was Patrick Geddes's "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" first published?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1913.

3. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Bernal Diaz.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

4. When was "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1937.

5. "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" describe the relationships of the working class in what British area?
(a) Staffordshire.
(b) Williamshire.
(c) Bethnal Green.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When were "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" first published?

3. When was "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" first published?

4. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?

5. How many boulevards would shoot off the city center in Ebenezer Howard's "The Town-Country Magnet"?

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