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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) The Long Road.
(b) My First Goat.
(c) Dinner With Mabel.
(d) The Bell Curve.

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

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

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

5. When were "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" first published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1957.

6. 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"?
(a) Frequent elections.
(b) Cutting public spending.
(c) Increasing taxation.
(d) Decreasing taxation.

7. How many residents live in the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?
(a) 2.5 million.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 1.5 million.

8. 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?
(a) The ruralists.
(b) The structuralists.
(c) The urbanists.
(d) The realists.

9. 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) Wide, straight streets.
(d) Narrow, straight streets.

10. "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" describe the relationships of the working class in what British area?
(a) Staffordshire.
(b) Williamshire.
(c) Bethnal Green.
(d) London.

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

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

13. 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.

14. What is the second 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.

15. When was "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1928.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America" first published?

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

3. Who wrote "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"?

4. What is the first city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?

5. 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"?

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