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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What city is described with the Church initially a factor in its boundaries, though later Charlemagne grew the empire in "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Amsterdam.

5. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1952.

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

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

8. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?
(a) Unimaginable.
(b) Clearly drawn.
(c) Fuzzy.
(d) Vastly different.

9. What refers to entry points or points of transportation in a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Doors.
(b) Tunnels.
(c) Nodes.
(d) Stems.

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

11. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?
(a) 1475.
(b) 1471.
(c) 1470.
(d) 1467.

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

13. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Quantitative.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Political.

14. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?
(a) London.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Manchester.

15. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) Kingsley Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?

2. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?

3. Who wrote "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"?

4. Who does LeGate write developed a "broken window" theory and community policing ideas in "How to Study Cities"?

5. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

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