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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Michael Porter.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Kenneth Jackson.
(d) Frederic Stout.

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

3. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Never-ending.
(d) Tedious.

4. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
(a) Kingsley Davis.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Kevin Lynch.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

5. Whose "thoughtful prescriptions for urban poverty" are discussed by LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Larry S. Bourne.
(c) Michael Porter's.
(d) John Forester's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The editors write in the Introduction from the Editors that their students have asked for the past how many years what the best writings in urban development are?

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

3. The editors of The City Reader have taught at the San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkley and what other institution, according to the Introduction from the Editors?

4. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?

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"?

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