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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 is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The Ottomans.
(d) The Gods.

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

3. When was "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1959.

4. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) Kevin Lynch.
(c) Kingsley Davis.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

5. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?
(a) James Q. Wilson.
(b) John Reps.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "thoughtful prescriptions for urban poverty" are discussed by LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

2. Kevin Lynch writes in "The City Image and Its Elements" about concepts that are common to cities and necessary for these areas to be what?

3. When was "The Urban Revolution" first published?

4. The editors write in the Introduction from the Editors that their students have asked for the past how many years what the best writings in urban development are?

5. In "Nature in the Metropolis," Ian McHarg writes about the best way to construct a city in harmony with what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does "The Urbanization of the Human Population" explain urbanization in relation to human development?

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

3. What city is described in John Brinckerhoff Jackson's "The Almost Perfect Town"?

4. What does Richard LeGates discuss in terms of discipline within academia in the Introduction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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