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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. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?
(a) Athens.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Genoa.
(d) Rome.

2. Who is the author of "The Reconstruction of Social Meaning in the Space of Flows"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Constantin Doxiadis.
(c) Peter Hall.
(d) Manuel Castells.

3. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?
(a) Autocratic state.
(b) Peace state.
(c) Dictatorial state.
(d) Mosaic-state.

4. Who was the author of the essay "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?
(a) W.E.B. Dubois.
(b) Jane Jacobs.
(c) Ernest W. Burgess.
(d) Kenneth T. Jackson.

5. In "Nature in the Metropolis," Ian McHarg writes about the best way to construct a city in harmony with what?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Nature.
(c) Wind.
(d) People.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis Mumford presents the city as a collection of primary groups assembled together, with their physical organization determining levels of what?

2. When was "The Black Underclass" first published?

3. What is the first of several responses to developments of local governments given by the author in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

4. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?

5. When was "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America" first published?

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