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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. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Paleolithic.
(c) Neolithic.
(d) Philosophical.

2. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?
(a) Humboldt State University.
(b) University of Southern California.
(c) San Francisco State University.
(d) University of California Santa Clara.

3. 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?
(a) Vastly different.
(b) Unimaginable.
(c) Clearly drawn.
(d) Fuzzy.

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

5. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1950.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"?

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

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. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?

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