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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 Urban Revolution" first published?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1950.

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

3. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?
(a) Genoa.
(b) Athens.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Rome.

4. Kevin Lynch writes in "The City Image and Its Elements" about concepts that are common to cities and necessary for these areas to be what?
(a) "Sexually gratifying."
(b) "Psychologically satisfying."
(c) "Morally gratifying."
(d) "Intellectually stimulating."

5. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) 1500 A.D.
(b) 1400 B.C.
(c) 1500 B.C.
(d) 1300 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Friedrich Engels born?

2. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?

3. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

4. When was "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" first published?

5. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "How to Study Cities"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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