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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What research method involves the analysis of statistical data?
(a) Quantitative.
(b) Number crunching.
(c) Political.
(d) Qualitative.

2. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Cheapen.
(b) Trivialize.
(c) Compartmentalize.
(d) Over analyze.

3. The editors write in the Introduction from the Editors that their students have asked for the past how many years what the best writings in urban development are?
(a) 42.
(b) 35.
(c) 37.
(d) 28.

4. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Gods.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Ottomans.

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

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

7. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Crete.
(c) Rome.
(d) London.

8. 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) Industrial.
(c) Qualitative.
(d) Quantitative.

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

10. 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?
(a) Democratic voting.
(b) The rule of the King.
(c) Community organization.
(d) Freedom of the press.

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

12. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?
(a) University of California Santa Clara.
(b) Humboldt State University.
(c) University of Southern California.
(d) San Francisco State University.

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

14. When did Friedrich Engels produce The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1848.

15. "The Design of Spaces" is a result of a study requested by whom?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(c) The New York Mayor's Office.
(d) The New York City Planning Commission.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?

2. When was "The Great Towns" first published?

3. Who wrote "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"?

4. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?

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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