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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 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?
(a) Vertical dwellings.
(b) Urban centers.
(c) Green space.
(d) National parks.

2. What civilization's community was more geographically centered, and citizens were expected to contribute to the justice system, seeing it as their community duty according to the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Ottoman.
(b) Roman.
(c) Italian.
(d) Greek.

3. 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) 1500 A.D.
(c) 1300 B.C.
(d) 1400 B.C.

4. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) H.D.F. Kitto.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) Bernal Diaz.
(d) Kingsley Davis.

5. When were "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" first published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

2. Who was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla?

3. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?

4. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?

5. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?

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