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

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

3. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1952.

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

5. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."
(a) Random.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Hereditary.
(d) Political.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?

2. Who wrote "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"?

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. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

5. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What type of dwelling and community is described in "Levittown and America"? What does the author conclude?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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