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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?
(a) 1475.
(b) 1467.
(c) 1471.
(d) 1470.

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

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

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

8. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Kingsley Davis.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

9. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
(a) H.D.F. Kitto.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) Bernal Diaz.

10. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Rome.
(c) Genoa.
(d) Athens.

11. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Edges.
(b) Walls.
(c) Limits.
(d) Imaginary.

12. What is the first of the five zones of the city described in "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?
(a) The urban zone.
(b) The financial zone.
(c) The shopping district.
(d) The government zone.

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

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. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?

3. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?

4. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?

5. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

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