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

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

3. 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) Greek.
(b) Italian.
(c) Roman.
(d) Ottoman.

4. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."
(a) Hereditary.
(b) Random.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Political.

5. Who wrote "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"?
(a) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(b) W.E.B. Dubois.
(c) Ibn Battuta.
(d) Henri Pirenne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What research method involves the analysis of statistical data?

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

3. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?

4. When was "The City Image and Its Elements" first published?

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

(see the answer key)

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