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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. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Compartmentalize.
(b) Trivialize.
(c) Cheapen.
(d) Over analyze.

2. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?
(a) Larry S. Bourne.
(b) John Reps.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Frederic Stout.

3. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) Ibn Battuta.

4. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?
(a) Frederic Stout.
(b) Larry S. Bourne.
(c) Raymond Mohl.
(d) Kevin Lynch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?

2. Who was the author of "The Polis"?

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

5. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?

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