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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"?
(a) Peter Willmott and Christopher Alexander.
(b) Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
(c) Oscar Lewis and Christopher Alexander.
(d) Oscar Lewis and Peter Willmott.

2. Who wrote "Place and Production in the Global Economy"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Saskia Sassen.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Robin Hambleton.

3. Who authored "The City as Image"?
(a) John Mollenkopf.
(b) Burton Pike.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

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

5. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) Saskia Sassen.
(d) Robin Hambleton.

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

7. Who wrote "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Robin Hambleton.
(d) Gerry Stoker.

8. Who wrote "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"?
(a) Saskia Sassen.
(b) Raymond Unwin.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) Frederick Law Olmsted.

9. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Genoe.

10. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?
(a) "Total Utopia."
(b) "The Factual Town."
(c) "The City of Theory."
(d) "It Takes A Village."

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

12. Who wrote "A Contemporary City"?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Le Corbusier.
(c) Hambleton.
(d) Olmsted.

13. Who wrote "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) John Mollenkopf.
(d) Burton Pike.

14. Who are the authors of "Cities and Uneven Economic Development"?
(a) Robin Hambleton and Alan Warde.
(b) Saskia Sassen and Mike Savage.
(c) Alan Warde and Saskia Sassen.
(d) Mike Savage and Alan Warde.

15. How many boulevards would shoot off the city center in Ebenezer Howard's "The Town-Country Magnet"?
(a) Eight.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" describe the relationships of the working class in what British area?

2. Where was Patrick Geddes from?

3. What term refers to a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order?

4. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the British system is more what?

5. What does the author of "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" write advanced a democratic society, taking pressure off of different classes by giving them an area that they can all enjoy?

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