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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. When was "How to Study Urban Political Power" first published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1990.

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

5. 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 structuralists.
(b) The realists.
(c) The ruralists.
(d) The urbanists.

6. When was "What is a City?" first published?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1936.

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

8. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?
(a) "Total Utopia."
(b) "The City of Theory."
(c) "The Factual Town."
(d) "It Takes A Village."

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

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

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

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

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

14. What would serve as the "lungs" of the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?
(a) Stadiums.
(b) Power plants.
(c) Factories.
(d) Open spaces.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

2. 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?

3. What kind of cities does Ebenezer Howard present as a protest against overcrowding?

4. Who rejects economic and social controls and see politics as the study of systematic power in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

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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