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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. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Scotland, Iran, and Sudan.
(b) India, Ireland, and Chile.
(c) Egypt, Sumner, and India.
(d) Egypt, Sudan, and Ireland.

2. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Kevin Lynch.
(d) Kingsley Davis.

3. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Quantitative.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Political.
(d) Qualitative.

4. Where are the slums and factories located in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Locust Street.
(b) Railroad Avenue.
(c) Myrtle Avenue.
(d) South Main Street.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "How to Study Cities"?

2. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

3. The editors write in the Introduction from the Editors that their students have asked for the past how many years what the best writings in urban development are?

4. 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?

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

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