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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 civilization's community was more geographically centered, and citizens were expected to contribute to the justice system, seeing it as their community duty according to the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Greek.
(b) Roman.
(c) Italian.
(d) Ottoman.

2. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Town Planning Review.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) Forbes.

3. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Neolithic.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Paleolithic.

4. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1998.

5. 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) Industrial.
(b) Silver.
(c) Space.
(d) Utopian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

2. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?

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

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"?

5. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact did the feudal system have on production, according to "The Urbanization of the Human Population"? When did production levels change?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. How does V. Gordon Childe's "The Urban Revolution" re-categorize history?

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

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

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

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