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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Michael Porter.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Kenneth Jackson.
(d) Frederic Stout.

2. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Political.
(c) Quantitative.
(d) Industrial.

3. Who was the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Henri Pirenne.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) Ibn Battuta.

4. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?
(a) Peace state.
(b) Dictatorial state.
(c) Autocratic state.
(d) Mosaic-state.

5. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Rome.
(c) Crete.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?

2. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?

3. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

4. What refers to entry points or points of transportation in a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

5. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are examples of "boundaries" as defined by Kevin Lynch? What are nodes?

2. What city does Pirenne discuss in "Cities and European Civilization"? How does he describe it?

3. How does H.D.F. Kitto define "polis" in "The Polis"?

4. What is Richard LeGates' purpose in the article "How to Study Cities"?

5. What led to the publication of "The Design of Spaces"? What does this study entail?

6. How many Americans lived in urban areas in 1960, according to Kingsley Davis? How did this change?

7. How is The City Reader structured as an anthology?

8. When did Ernest W. Burgess describe the process of expansion through zones? Why did it occur?

9. What metaphor does Christopher Alexander make in "A City is Not a Tree"?

10. What vision is described in Ernest W. Burgess's "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

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