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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What current trends of the urban life does Mumford refer to as the "postnucleated city"?
(a) Dissociation and demoralization.
(b) Dissociation and decentralization.
(c) Demoralization and dismay.
(d) Demoralization and decentralization.

2. When was "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" first published?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1909.

3. In "Keeping Themselves to Themselves," one of the main reasons for the failure of the relocation, the authors contest, is that the inhabitants moved into what kind of community?
(a) Unestablished.
(b) Unsophisticated.
(c) Unincorporated.
(d) Unprepared.

4. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Christopher Alexander..
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Michael Young.

5. When was "Regime Theory and Urban Politics" first published?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1988.

6. What is the second city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
(a) Efficient consumption.
(b) Managing power.
(c) Eliminating the difference between producers and consumers.
(d) Security.

7. What is referred to as the relationship and interaction between governmental and non-governmental bodies, seeing how they interact and get results in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Tug of war.
(b) Power tolerance.
(c) Regime theory.
(d) Obediance.

8. When were "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" first published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1957.

9. What is the third of four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Preemptive.
(b) Systematic.
(c) Coalition.
(d) Command/social.

10. When was Patrick Geddes's "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" first published?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1915.

11. When was John Kasarda's "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" first published?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1993.

12. Where was Patrick Geddes from?
(a) Greenland.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Ireland.

13. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1945.

14. When was "The Black Underclass" first published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1984.

15. When was "How to Study Urban Political Power" first published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ebenezer Howard call the central area in his Utopian cities in "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"?

2. When was "Choosing a Future" first published?

3. When were "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" first published?

4. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?

5. How many residents live in the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?

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