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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. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
(a) Space.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Utopian.
(d) Silver.

2. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Bernal Diaz.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) Kingsley Davis.

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"?
(a) Theories.
(b) Disciplines.
(c) Degrees.
(d) Scientific laws.

4. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?
(a) Raymond Mohl.
(b) Kevin Lynch.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) James Q. Wilson.

5. 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?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Coloumbia University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Stanford University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

2. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?

3. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?

4. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?

5. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?

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