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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. When was "The Great Towns" first published?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1844.

2. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."
(a) Random.
(b) Political.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Hereditary.

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

4. 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) Stanford University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Coloumbia University.

5. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?
(a) Hobbies.
(b) Field of interest.
(c) Area's of amusement.
(d) Academic disciplines.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What city is described with the Church initially a factor in its boundaries, though later Charlemagne grew the empire in "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?

4. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?

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

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