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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Evolution of Cities.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does LeGate write developed a "broken window" theory and community policing ideas in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Michael Porter and William Julius Wilson.
(b) Michael Porter and James Q. Wilson.
(c) George L. Kelling and William Julius Wilson.
(d) James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling.

3. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Frederic Stout's.
(b) John Forester's.
(c) Lewis Mumford's.
(d) James Q. Wilson's.

4. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?
(a) 1467.
(b) 1471.
(c) 1475.
(d) 1470.

5. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Neolithic.
(c) Paleolithic.
(d) Philosophical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?

2. What did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?

3. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?

4. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?

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

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