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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 urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?
(a) John Reps.
(b) Kevin Lynch.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

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

3. What did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?
(a) Bath houses.
(b) Public spaces.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Courthouses.

4. When was "The Great Towns" first published?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1835.

5. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) Kingsley Davis.
(c) Kevin Lynch.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?

2. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?

3. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

4. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?

5. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?

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