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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?
(a) My First Goat.
(b) The Bell Curve.
(c) The Long Road.
(d) Dinner With Mabel.

2. When was "The Culture of Poverty" first published?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1958.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where was Ebenezer Howard from?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) Spain.

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

10. What term refers to a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order?
(a) Rank.
(b) Hierarchy.
(c) Pecking order.
(d) Seniority.

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

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

13. 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) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

14. "What is a City?" discusses the urban experience as what to human life?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) Detrimental.
(c) Central.
(d) Enlightening.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

2. 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?

3. When was "What is a City?" first published?

4. When was Ebenezer Howard born?

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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