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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. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) Town Planning Review.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Forbes.

2. 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) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Kenneth Jackson.

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

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

5. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Manchester.
(c) London.
(d) Dublin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "How to Study Cities"?

2. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?

3. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?

4. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?

5. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?

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