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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Urban Society and Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?
(a) Area's of amusement.
(b) Field of interest.
(c) Hobbies.
(d) Academic disciplines.

2. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?
(a) Athens.
(b) Rome.
(c) Genoa.
(d) Madrid.

3. When was "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" first published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1961.

4. When was "The Culture of Poverty" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1961.

5. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
(a) Silver.
(b) Space.
(c) Utopian.
(d) Industrial.

Short Answer Questions

1. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."

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"?

3. Who is the author of "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia"?

4. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?

5. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?

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