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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. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?
(a) Michael Young.
(b) Jane Jacobs.
(c) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(d) Christopher Alexander.

2. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1998.

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

4. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?
(a) Rome.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Genoa.
(d) Athens.

5. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) 1880s
(b) 1870s.
(c) 1860s
(d) 1890s

Short Answer Questions

1. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

2. When was the article "Levittown and America" first published?

3. When did Friedrich Engels produce The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx?

4. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?

5. "The Design of Spaces" is a result of a study requested by whom?

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