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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. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?
(a) The philosophical epoch.
(b) The critical epoch.
(c) The industrial epoch.
(d) The musical epoch.

2. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?
(a) Unrelated.
(b) Interrelated.
(c) Essential.
(d) Without limit.

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

4. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Businesses.
(b) Paths.
(c) Homes.
(d) Emergency services.

5. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Bernal Diaz.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) Kingsley Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the five zones of the city described in "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

2. The editors describe John Brinckerhoff Jackson's view of the Southwestern city in "The Almost Perfect Town" as what?

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

4. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?

5. Who was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla?

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