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

2. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) John Reps.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

3. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Kevin Lynch.
(c) Kingsley Davis.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

4. What kind of academic programs are referred to as those which bring the expertise of specialists from multiple disciplines together?
(a) Interdisciplinary programs.
(b) Combidisciplinary programs.
(c) Doctorate programs.
(d) Megadisciplinary programs.

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) Stanford University.
(b) Coloumbia University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Rutgers University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?

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

3. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?

4. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?

5. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?

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