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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. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) 1870s.
(b) 1890s
(c) 1880s
(d) 1860s

2. Where can wealth and fashionable residences be found in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Walker Drive.
(b) Robson Street.
(c) Lakeshore Drive.
(d) North Main Street.

3. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?
(a) Michael Young.
(b) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(c) Christopher Alexander.
(d) Jane Jacobs.

4. What refers to entry points or points of transportation in a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Stems.
(b) Doors.
(c) Nodes.
(d) Tunnels.

5. When was "The Polis" first published?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

2. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?

3. The editors of The City Reader have taught at the San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkley and what other institution, according to the Introduction from the Editors?

4. When was the article "Levittown and America" first published?

5. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the subject of the essay "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"? What assertions does the author claim?

3. In Friedrich Engels' "The Great Towns," how does the author describe the other side of the river? What does he blame for the urban congestion?

4. What is the basis of study in "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications"? What did the author conclude?

5. What works of W.E.B. Dubois are in the collection? What does Dubois center on in his writing?

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

7. What environment does Engels describe in "The Great Towns"? Where does his analysis take place?

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

9. How many selections are in The City Reader? How were they chosen, according to Richard LeGates?

10. What is The City Reader aimed at in the academic setting? What authors in the selection have specialties in the field of urban study?

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