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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"
(a) Utilities.
(b) Social needs.
(c) Building codes.
(d) Emergency service.

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

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

4. Who discuss the implications of social complexities and question what the advantage of interests implies, according to the author of "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Intellectuals.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Neo-pluralists.

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

6. In "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author discusses the developments in the U.S. and U.K. for the past how many years?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

7. Lewis Mumford presents the city as a collection of primary groups assembled together, with their physical organization determining levels of what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Fame.
(c) Drama.
(d) Wealth.

8. What group concedes that economic forces come into play, but that urban political theory also needs to draw on theories of the state in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
(a) The communists.
(b) The futurists.
(c) The structuralists.
(d) The pluralists.

9. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Michael Young.
(d) Burton Pike.

10. 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?
(a) Corrupt.
(b) Greedy.
(c) Central.
(d) Inept.

11. What kind of cities does Ebenezer Howard present as a protest against overcrowding?
(a) Flat cities.
(b) Garden cities.
(c) Suicide cities.
(d) Floating cities.

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

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

14. When was Ebenezer Howard born?
(a) 1838.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1850.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. "What is a City?" discusses the urban experience as what to human life?

3. What is the first of several responses to developments of local governments given by the author in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

4. Who is the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?

5. Who wrote "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

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