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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Space.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Silver.
(d) Utopian.

2. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1996.

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

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

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

6. 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) The rule of the King.
(d) Freedom of the press.

7. What refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Monuments.
(b) Statues.
(c) Boundaries.
(d) Landmarks.

8. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Frederic Stout's.
(b) John Forester's.
(c) James Q. Wilson's.
(d) Lewis Mumford's.

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

10. Whose "thoughtful prescriptions for urban poverty" are discussed by LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Larry S. Bourne.
(b) Michael Porter's.
(c) John Forester's.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

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

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

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

14. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) James Q. Wilson.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" first published?

2. The editors of The City Reader have taught at the San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkley and what other institution, according to the Introduction from the Editors?

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

4. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?

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

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