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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. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1948.

2. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Frederic Stout.
(c) Kenneth Jackson.
(d) Michael Porter.

3. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the American system is more what?
(a) Greedy.
(b) Plural.
(c) Inept.
(d) Central.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?

2. Where are the slums and factories located in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?

3. 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"?

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

5. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

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