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

2. What was at the center of the imaginary American city when it was first laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Cemetery.
(b) Courthouse.
(c) Cathedral.
(d) Hospital.

3. Whose "thoughtful prescriptions for urban poverty" are discussed by LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Larry S. Bourne.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) John Forester's.
(d) Michael Porter's.

4. When was "Choosing a Future" first published?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1984.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?

2. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?

3. When was "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" first published?

4. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

5. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?

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