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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) People.
(b) Wind.
(c) Nature.
(d) Concrete.

2. 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.

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

4. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Frederic Stout.
(c) Larry S. Bourne.
(d) John Reps.

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

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

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

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

9. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."
(a) Random.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Political.
(d) Hereditary.

10. When was the article "Levittown and America" first published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1968.

11. Who does LeGate write developed a "broken window" theory and community policing ideas in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) George L. Kelling and William Julius Wilson.
(b) Michael Porter and William Julius Wilson.
(c) James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling.
(d) Michael Porter and James Q. Wilson.

12. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?
(a) Area's of amusement.
(b) Field of interest.
(c) Hobbies.
(d) Academic disciplines.

13. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Scotland, Iran, and Sudan.
(b) India, Ireland, and Chile.
(c) Egypt, Sudan, and Ireland.
(d) Egypt, Sumner, and India.

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

15. What refers to the city areas or "parts" of a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Limbs.
(b) Boroughs.
(c) Territories.
(d) Districts.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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"?

3. What was at the center of the imaginary American city when it was first laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

4. 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"?

5. When was "The Polis" first published?

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