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

2. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?
(a) San Francisco State University.
(b) University of Southern California.
(c) University of California Santa Clara.
(d) Humboldt State University.

3. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Manchester.
(d) Berlin.

4. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Bernal Diaz.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) Henri Pirenne.

5. 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) 28.
(b) 35.
(c) 37.
(d) 42.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ernest W. Burgess what is central to the expansion of cities?

2. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

3. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?

4. Who was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla?

5. When was Friedrich Engels born?

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