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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 current trends of the urban life does Mumford refer to as the "postnucleated city"?
(a) Dissociation and decentralization.
(b) Demoralization and decentralization.
(c) Dissociation and demoralization.
(d) Demoralization and dismay.

2. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

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

4. What did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?
(a) Bath houses.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Public spaces.
(d) Courthouses.

5. 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?
(a) Unprepared.
(b) Unincorporated.
(c) Unsophisticated.
(d) Unestablished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the five zones of the city described in "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

2. Who wrote "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"?

3. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

4. 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"?

5. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?

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