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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What current trends of the urban life does Mumford refer to as the "postnucleated city"?
(a) Dissociation and decentralization.
(b) Demoralization and decentralization.
(c) Demoralization and dismay.
(d) Dissociation and demoralization.

2. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"
(a) Social needs.
(b) Utilities.
(c) Building codes.
(d) Emergency service.

3. Where are the slums and factories located in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Locust Street.
(b) South Main Street.
(c) Railroad Avenue.
(d) Myrtle Avenue.

4. When was "The Culture of Poverty" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1961.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Regime Theory and Urban Politics" first published?

2. According to Ernest W. Burgess what is central to the expansion of cities?

3. When was Patrick Geddes's "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" first published?

4. Where was Patrick Geddes from?

5. Who was the author of the essay "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

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