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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of streets does the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" argue have reduced urban overcrowding?
(a) Narrow, curved streets.
(b) Wide, curved streets.
(c) Narrow, straight streets.
(d) Wide, straight streets.

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

3. What would serve as the "lungs" of the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?
(a) Power plants.
(b) Open spaces.
(c) Stadiums.
(d) Factories.

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

5. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the American system is more what?
(a) Central.
(b) Greedy.
(c) Inept.
(d) Plural.

6. 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) Unsophisticated.
(b) Unprepared.
(c) Unincorporated.
(d) Unestablished.

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) Regime theory.
(b) Obediance.
(c) Tug of war.
(d) Power tolerance.

8. Who wrote "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) Robin Hambleton.
(c) Raymond Unwin.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

9. When was Patrick Geddes born?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1861.

10. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1926.

11. Who rejects economic and social controls and see politics as the study of systematic power in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
(a) The communists.
(b) The realists.
(c) The pluralists.
(d) The structuralists.

12. Who does the author of "The Black Underclass" criticize for their fear to confront the issues of the poor black community?
(a) Communists.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Democrats.
(d) Republicans.

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

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

15. When was "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America" first published?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth of the four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

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

3. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?

4. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?

5. In "How to Study Urban Political Power," the author writes that there have been two groups of researchers studying city politics: the pluralists, and who?

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