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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. Who was the author of "The Polis"?
(a) Ibn Battuta.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) H.D.F. Kitto.

2. What is the first of the five zones of the city described in "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?
(a) The urban zone.
(b) The financial zone.
(c) The shopping district.
(d) The government zone.

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) Philosophical.
(b) Paleolithic.
(c) Neolithic.
(d) Artistic.

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

5. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?
(a) Area's of amusement.
(b) Field of interest.
(c) Hobbies.
(d) Academic disciplines.

Short Answer Questions

1. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."

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

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

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

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What metaphor does Christopher Alexander make in "A City is Not a Tree"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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