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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1936.

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

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

8. When was "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" first published?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1913.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who is the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Raymond Unwin.
(d) Robin Hambleton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?

3. Who wrote "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"?

4. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?

5. 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?

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