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

2. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?
(a) Ibn Battuta.
(b) H.D.F. Kitto.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Henri Pirenne.

3. In "Nature in the Metropolis," Ian McHarg writes about the best way to construct a city in harmony with what?
(a) People.
(b) Nature.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Wind.

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

5. 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) Without limit.
(b) Interrelated.
(c) Essential.
(d) Unrelated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?

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

3. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

4. What refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

5. What refers to the city areas or "parts" of a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

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