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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. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Walls.
(b) Imaginary.
(c) Limits.
(d) Edges.

2. Who wrote "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"?
(a) Christopher Alexander.
(b) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(c) Ernest W. Burgess.
(d) Jane Jacobs.

3. What refers to the city areas or "parts" of a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Districts.
(b) Boroughs.
(c) Territories.
(d) Limbs.

4. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
(a) Bernal Diaz.
(b) H.D.F. Kitto.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) Marco Polo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Friedrich Engels born?

2. Who was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla?

3. In "Nature in the Metropolis," Ian McHarg writes about the best way to construct a city in harmony with what?

4. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?

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

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