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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 First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1996.

2. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Egypt, Sumner, and India.
(b) Scotland, Iran, and Sudan.
(c) India, Ireland, and Chile.
(d) Egypt, Sudan, and Ireland.

3. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) 1400 B.C.
(b) 1300 B.C.
(c) 1500 B.C.
(d) 1500 A.D.

4. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1948.

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) Philosophical.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Paleolithic.
(d) Neolithic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?

2. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?

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

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

5. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?

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