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

2. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?
(a) John Reps.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) James Q. Wilson.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

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

4. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"
(a) Utilities.
(b) Building codes.
(c) Emergency service.
(d) Social needs.

5. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?
(a) Political.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Quantitative.
(d) Industrial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?

2. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?

3. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

4. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?

5. Kevin Lynch writes in "The City Image and Its Elements" about concepts that are common to cities and necessary for these areas to be what?

(see the answer key)

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