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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 did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?
(a) Public spaces.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Courthouses.
(d) Bath houses.

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

3. Who is the author of "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia"?
(a) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(b) W.E.B. Dubois.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?

3. 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?

4. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?

5. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

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