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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?
(a) Degrees.
(b) Disciplines.
(c) Theories.
(d) Scientific laws.

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who was the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Ibn Battuta.
(b) H.D.F. Kitto.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Henri Pirenne.

11. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) John Reps.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

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

13. 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) Italian.
(b) Ottoman.
(c) Greek.
(d) Roman.

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

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) Vastly different.
(b) Unimaginable.
(c) Fuzzy.
(d) Clearly drawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

2. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?

3. What is the first of the five zones of the city described in "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

4. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?

5. When was "The City Image and Its Elements" first published?

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