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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. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?
(a) Mosaic-state.
(b) Dictatorial state.
(c) Autocratic state.
(d) Peace state.

2. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?
(a) GIS.
(b) KGB.
(c) NHL.
(d) CIA.

3. 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"?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Kenneth Jackson.
(c) Frederic Stout.
(d) Michael Porter.

4. Who is the author of "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(c) W.E.B. Dubois.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

5. When was Friedrich Engels born?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1820.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?

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

3. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

4. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?

5. 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"?

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