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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 decentralization.
(b) Demoralization and dismay.
(c) Demoralization and decentralization.
(d) Dissociation and demoralization.

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

3. The author of "The Black Underclass" argues that upwardly mobile men have moved out of poor black communities, depriving these communities of what?
(a) Father figures.
(b) Congressmen.
(c) Priests.
(d) Potential leaders.

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

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

6. "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" compares the trade and manufacturing of midland England, for example, versus the financial functions of what major cities?
(a) New York and London.
(b) Boston and Philadelphia.
(c) Paris and Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago and St. Louis.

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

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

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

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

11. 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 pluralists.
(b) The futurists.
(c) The communists.
(d) The structuralists.

12. What publication is Ebenezer Howard most well-known for publishing?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Garden Cities of To-morrow.
(d) Time Magazine.

13. When were "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" first published?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1901.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Kasarda's "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" first published?

2. When was "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?

3. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?

4. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

5. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?

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