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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 wrote "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"?
(a) Ernest W. Burgess.
(b) Jane Jacobs.
(c) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(d) Christopher Alexander.

2. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Over analyze.
(b) Cheapen.
(c) Trivialize.
(d) Compartmentalize.

3. What refers to the city areas or "parts" of a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Limbs.
(b) Territories.
(c) Boroughs.
(d) Districts.

4. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Frederic Stout's.
(b) James Q. Wilson's.
(c) Lewis Mumford's.
(d) John Forester's.

5. Whose "thoughtful prescriptions for urban poverty" are discussed by LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Michael Porter's.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) John Forester's.
(d) Larry S. Bourne.

Short Answer Questions

1. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?

2. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?

3. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?

4. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What is The City Reader aimed at in the academic setting? What authors in the selection have specialties in the field of urban study?

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

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

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

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

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

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