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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?
(a) Degrees.
(b) Theories.
(c) Scientific laws.
(d) Disciplines.

2. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?
(a) Bernal Diaz.
(b) Kingsley Davis.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

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

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

5. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?
(a) 59.
(b) 56.
(c) 52.
(d) 53.

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

7. When was "The Polis" first published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1949.

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

9. When was "The Great Towns" first published?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1835.

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

11. According to Ernest W. Burgess what is central to the expansion of cities?
(a) Culture.
(b) Decentralization.
(c) Wealth.
(d) The mayor's office.

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

13. What research method involves the analysis of statistical data?
(a) Quantitative.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Political.
(d) Number crunching.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where can wealth and fashionable residences be found in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?

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

3. 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?

4. The First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?

5. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?

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