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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 "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) Unprepared.
(b) Unestablished.
(c) Unincorporated.
(d) Unsophisticated.

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

3. Who are the authors of "Cities and Uneven Economic Development"?
(a) Robin Hambleton and Alan Warde.
(b) Mike Savage and Alan Warde.
(c) Saskia Sassen and Mike Savage.
(d) Alan Warde and Saskia Sassen.

4. Who wrote "Place and Production in the Global Economy"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Saskia Sassen.
(c) Raymond Unwin.
(d) Robin Hambleton.

5. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?
(a) The Gods.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The Ottomans.
(d) The Greeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?

2. In "How to Study Urban Political Power," the author writes that there have been two groups of researchers studying city politics: the pluralists, and who?

3. Who does the author of "The Black Underclass" criticize for their fear to confront the issues of the poor black community?

4. What is referred to as the relationship and interaction between governmental and non-governmental bodies, seeing how they interact and get results in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

5. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?

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