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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Perspectives on Urban Form and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1952.

5. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Never-ending.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Tedious.
(d) Enlightening.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

2. What did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?

3. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?

4. In "Nature in the Metropolis," Ian McHarg writes about the best way to construct a city in harmony with what?

5. What was at the center of the imaginary American city when it was first laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

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