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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Community organization.
(c) The rule of the King.
(d) Democratic voting.

2. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?
(a) Italy.
(b) Spain.
(c) Poland.
(d) Germany.

3. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Paleolithic.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Neolithic.

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

5. When were "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" first published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1952.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?

2. What is the first of the five zones of the city described in "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

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

4. 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"?

5. Who is the author of "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia"?

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