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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Bernal Diaz.
(c) Ibn Battuta.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

6. 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) Industrial.
(c) Utopian.
(d) Space.

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

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

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

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

11. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Michael Porter.
(b) Kenneth Jackson.
(c) Frederic Stout.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

12. 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) 35.
(b) 28.
(c) 37.
(d) 42.

13. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Poland.
(d) Italy.

14. When was "The City Image and Its Elements" first published?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

15. Who is the author of "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) W.E.B. Dubois.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?

3. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?

4. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?

5. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

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