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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. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?
(a) 56.
(b) 53.
(c) 52.
(d) 59.

2. 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"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Rome.

3. The editors describe John Brinckerhoff Jackson's view of the Southwestern city in "The Almost Perfect Town" as what?
(a) "Corrupt."
(b) "Heavenly."
(c) "Semimythical."
(d) "Beyond belief."

4. Who authored "The City as Image"?
(a) John Mollenkopf.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Burton Pike.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

5. In "Keeping Themselves to Themselves," one of the main reasons for the failure of the relocation, the authors contest, is that the inhabitants moved into what kind of community?
(a) Unsophisticated.
(b) Unestablished.
(c) Unincorporated.
(d) Unprepared.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?

3. What is the first city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?

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

5. When was "The Great Towns" first published?

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