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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. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) Robin Hambleton.
(c) Raymond Unwin.
(d) Saskia Sassen.

2. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?
(a) My First Goat.
(b) The Bell Curve.
(c) Dinner With Mabel.
(d) The Long Road.

3. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?
(a) Area's of amusement.
(b) Field of interest.
(c) Hobbies.
(d) Academic disciplines.

4. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?
(a) Essential.
(b) Unrelated.
(c) Without limit.
(d) Interrelated.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?

3. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

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

5. When was "The Culture of Poverty" first published?

(see the answer key)

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