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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 civilization's community was more geographically centered, and citizens were expected to contribute to the justice system, seeing it as their community duty according to the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Italian.
(b) Greek.
(c) Roman.
(d) Ottoman.

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

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?
(a) 42.
(b) 37.
(c) 35.
(d) 28.

4. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1956.

5. 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"?
(a) Monuments.
(b) Boundaries.
(c) Landmarks.
(d) Statues.

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. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?

3. 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"?

4. 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?

5. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

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