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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 28.
(b) 37.
(c) 42.
(d) 35.

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

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

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

5. 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) Hereditary.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Political.

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

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

8. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) 1860s
(b) 1870s.
(c) 1890s
(d) 1880s

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

10. What city is described with the Church initially a factor in its boundaries, though later Charlemagne grew the empire in "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

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

12. What was at the center of the imaginary American city when it was first laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Courthouse.
(b) Hospital.
(c) Cemetery.
(d) Cathedral.

13. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?
(a) The musical epoch.
(b) The critical epoch.
(c) The industrial epoch.
(d) The philosophical epoch.

14. What refers to entry points or points of transportation in a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Nodes.
(b) Doors.
(c) Tunnels.
(d) Stems.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kevin Lynch writes in "The City Image and Its Elements" about concepts that are common to cities and necessary for these areas to be what?

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

3. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

4. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

5. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?

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