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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Roman.
(c) Greek.
(d) Italian.

3. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) 1880s
(b) 1860s
(c) 1890s
(d) 1870s.

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

5. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Kingsley Davis.
(c) Bernal Diaz.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

6. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?
(a) Without limit.
(b) Interrelated.
(c) Essential.
(d) Unrelated.

7. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
(a) Silver.
(b) Utopian.
(c) Space.
(d) Industrial.

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

9. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?
(a) James Q. Wilson.
(b) John Reps.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

10. When was "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" first published?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1964.

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

12. When was "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" first published?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1932.

13. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Political.
(b) Quantitative.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Qualitative.

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

15. 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) Fuzzy.
(c) Vastly different.
(d) Clearly drawn.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?

4. Who was the author of the essay "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

5. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?

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