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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Friedrich Engels born?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1822.

2. When was "The Polis" first published?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1952.

3. What kind of academic programs are referred to as those which bring the expertise of specialists from multiple disciplines together?
(a) Megadisciplinary programs.
(b) Combidisciplinary programs.
(c) Doctorate programs.
(d) Interdisciplinary programs.

4. What did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?
(a) Bath houses.
(b) Courthouses.
(c) Public spaces.
(d) Shopping.

5. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?
(a) Frederic Stout.
(b) Larry S. Bourne.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

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

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

8. The First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1996.

9. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Forbes.
(b) Town Planning Review.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The New York Times.

10. Where can wealth and fashionable residences be found in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Walker Drive.
(b) Lakeshore Drive.
(c) North Main Street.
(d) Robson Street.

11. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?
(a) KGB.
(b) NHL.
(c) GIS.
(d) CIA.

12. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?
(a) Frederic Stout.
(b) John Reps.
(c) Larry S. Bourne.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

13. According to Ernest W. Burgess what is central to the expansion of cities?
(a) Decentralization.
(b) Culture.
(c) Wealth.
(d) The mayor's office.

14. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Kevin Lynch.
(c) Kingsley Davis.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

15. What civilization's community was more geographically centered, and citizens were expected to contribute to the justice system, seeing it as their community duty according to the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Ottoman.
(b) Greek.
(c) Roman.
(d) Italian.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?

2. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?

3. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

4. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

5. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?

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