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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 periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Town Planning Review.
(b) The Wall Street Journal.
(c) Forbes.
(d) The New York Times.

2. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the American system is more what?
(a) Central.
(b) Plural.
(c) Inept.
(d) Greedy.

3. What is the second city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
(a) Eliminating the difference between producers and consumers.
(b) Managing power.
(c) Security.
(d) Efficient consumption.

4. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?
(a) 52.
(b) 53.
(c) 56.
(d) 59.

5. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?
(a) Theories.
(b) Scientific laws.
(c) Disciplines.
(d) Degrees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

2. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?

3. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

4. When were "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" first published?

5. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

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