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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?
(a) GIS.
(b) KGB.
(c) NHL.
(d) CIA.

3. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?
(a) John Reps.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Frederic Stout.
(d) Larry S. Bourne.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?

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

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

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