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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Future of The City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?
(a) H.D.F. Kitto.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) Ibn Battuta.
(d) Marco Polo.

2. What is the third of four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Command/social.
(b) Coalition.
(c) Systematic.
(d) Preemptive.

3. How many people would make up the cells in the universal system of life described in "Ecumenopolis, World City of Tomorrow"?
(a) 50,000 to 75,000.
(b) 25,000 to 50,000.
(c) 30,000 to 50,000.
(d) 10,000 to 20,000.

4. The author of "The Pedestrian Pocket" discusses the mismatch of suburban patterns and what kind of culture?
(a) Post-industrial.
(b) Native.
(c) Non-native.
(d) Religious.

5. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?
(a) Scientific laws.
(b) Disciplines.
(c) Theories.
(d) Degrees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order?

2. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

3. Who authored "The City as Image"?

4. When was "Regime Theory and Urban Politics" first published?

5. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

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