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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."
(a) Industrial.
(b) Random.
(c) Political.
(d) Hereditary.

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

3. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Quantitative.
(c) Qualitative.
(d) Political.

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?
(a) Unimaginable.
(b) Fuzzy.
(c) Vastly different.
(d) Clearly drawn.

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) Scientific laws.
(b) Degrees.
(c) Theories.
(d) Disciplines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?

3. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?

4. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

5. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?

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