1. "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" describe the relationships of the working class in what British area?
(a) Staffordshire.
(b) Williamshire.
(c) London.
(d) Bethnal Green.

2. 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?
(a) "Morally gratifying."
(b) "Sexually gratifying."
(c) "Intellectually stimulating."
(d) "Psychologically satisfying."

3. What research method involves the analysis of statistical data?
(a) Political.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Number crunching.
(d) Quantitative.

4. The editors of The City Reader have taught at the San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkley and what other institution, according to the Introduction from the Editors?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Coloumbia University.
(d) Stanford University.

5. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) Bernal Diaz.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?

4. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?

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

(see the answer key)

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