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

2. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?
(a) John Reps.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) James Q. Wilson.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

3. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Bernal Diaz.
(b) H.D.F. Kitto.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) Kingsley Davis.

4. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?
(a) The musical epoch.
(b) The critical epoch.
(c) The industrial epoch.
(d) The philosophical epoch.

5. Who wrote "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"?
(a) W.E.B. Dubois.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) Ibn Battuta.
(d) Kenneth T. Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?

2. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."

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

4. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?

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

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