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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 refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Statues.
(b) Landmarks.
(c) Monuments.
(d) Boundaries.

2. The editors describe John Brinckerhoff Jackson's view of the Southwestern city in "The Almost Perfect Town" as what?
(a) "Semimythical."
(b) "Corrupt."
(c) "Beyond belief."
(d) "Heavenly."

3. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?
(a) Fuzzy.
(b) Vastly different.
(c) Unimaginable.
(d) Clearly drawn.

4. Who does LeGate write developed a "broken window" theory and community policing ideas in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) George L. Kelling and William Julius Wilson.
(b) James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling.
(c) Michael Porter and James Q. Wilson.
(d) Michael Porter and William Julius Wilson.

5. When was "The Polis" first published?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1952.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?

2. The First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?

3. Where are the slums and factories located in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?

4. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What vision is described in Ernest W. Burgess's "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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