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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1996.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) 35.
(b) 37.
(c) 28.
(d) 42.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

4. 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"?

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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