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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1949.

4. "The Design of Spaces" is a result of a study requested by whom?
(a) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(b) The New York Mayor's Office.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The New York City Planning Commission.

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

6. 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) Fuzzy.
(d) Vastly different.

7. 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) Roman.
(c) Ottoman.
(d) Italian.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Town Planning Review.
(d) Forbes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?

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

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

4. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

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

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