1. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
(a) Utopian.
(b) Space.
(c) Silver.
(d) Industrial.

2. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) 1500 B.C.
(b) 1500 A.D.
(c) 1400 B.C.
(d) 1300 B.C.

3. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?
(a) Italy.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

4. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Ottomans.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Gods.

5. When was the article "Levittown and America" first published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?

(see the answer key)

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