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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

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

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

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

5. When was "The Black Underclass" first published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1984.

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

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

8. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Michael Young.
(c) Christopher Alexander..
(d) William Julius Wilson.

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

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

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

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

13. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the American system is more what?
(a) Inept.
(b) Central.
(c) Greedy.
(d) Plural.

14. 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.

15. 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) Wide, curved streets.
(b) Narrow, curved streets.
(c) Wide, straight streets.
(d) Narrow, straight streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many residents live in the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?

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

3. What did Ebenezer Howard call the central area in his Utopian cities in "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"?

4. What would serve as the "lungs" of the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?

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

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