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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 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) Italian.
(b) Greek.
(c) Ottoman.
(d) Roman.

2. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?
(a) Christopher Alexander..
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Michael Young.

3. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1929.

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

5. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) India, Ireland, and Chile.
(b) Egypt, Sudan, and Ireland.
(c) Scotland, Iran, and Sudan.
(d) Egypt, Sumner, and India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?

2. 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?

3. What kind of streets does the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" argue have reduced urban overcrowding?

4. When was Ebenezer Howard born?

5. When was "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?

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