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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The editors describe John Brinckerhoff Jackson's view of the Southwestern city in "The Almost Perfect Town" as what?
(a) "Semimythical."
(b) "Beyond belief."
(c) "Corrupt."
(d) "Heavenly."

5. 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"?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Michael Porter.
(c) Kenneth Jackson.
(d) Frederic Stout.

6. Where are the slums and factories located in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) South Main Street.
(b) Locust Street.
(c) Myrtle Avenue.
(d) Railroad Avenue.

7. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?
(a) Neolithic.
(b) Paleolithic.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Philosophical.

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

9. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?
(a) Raymond Mohl.
(b) Larry S. Bourne.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Frederic Stout.

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) "Morally gratifying."
(b) "Intellectually stimulating."
(c) "Sexually gratifying."
(d) "Psychologically satisfying."

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

15. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Opium City
(b) Optimum City.
(c) Optimo City.
(d) Optimizer City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?

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

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

4. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?

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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