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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) Frederic Stout.
(b) Michael Porter.
(c) Kenneth Jackson.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

2. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?
(a) Larry S. Bourne.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Raymond Mohl.
(d) Frederic Stout.

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

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

5. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Quantitative.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Qualitative.
(d) Political.

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

3. 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"?

4. What research method involves the analysis of statistical data?

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

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