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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Evolution of Cities.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla?
(a) Bernal Diaz.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) Ibn Battuta.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

2. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Crete.
(b) London.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Rome.

3. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?
(a) 52.
(b) 56.
(c) 53.
(d) 59.

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

5. When was Friedrich Engels born?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1818.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "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. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?

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?

5. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

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