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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. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
(a) Utopian.
(b) Space.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Silver.

2. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?
(a) Genoa.
(b) Athens.
(c) Rome.
(d) Madrid.

3. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) 1500 B.C.
(b) 1500 A.D.
(c) 1400 B.C.
(d) 1300 B.C.

4. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?
(a) Degrees.
(b) Scientific laws.
(c) Theories.
(d) Disciplines.

5. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?
(a) John Reps.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Larry S. Bourne.
(d) Frederic Stout.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does LeGate write developed a "broken window" theory and community policing ideas in "How to Study Cities"?

2. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?

3. 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"?

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

5. When was "The City Image and Its Elements" first published?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe author Kingsley Davis. What works is he most well-known for?

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

4. What essay is written by Kevin Lynch? What elements of cities does he introduce?

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

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

7. How did open spaces become a part of urbanization, according to H.D.F. Kitto? From what culture did they arise?

8. Henri Pirenne's "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" each discuss cities in slightly different ways. What is the first article in reference to?

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

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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