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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. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?
(a) Fuzzy.
(b) Vastly different.
(c) Unimaginable.
(d) Clearly drawn.

2. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?
(a) John Reps.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) James Q. Wilson.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?

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

3. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

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

5. What city is described with the Church initially a factor in its boundaries, though later Charlemagne grew the empire in "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?

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