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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1868.

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

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

4. Who wrote "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Burton Pike.
(c) Raymond Unwin.
(d) John Mollenkopf.

5. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Genoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

2. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?

3. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?

4. What is the third of four kinds of power described by the author 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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