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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) H.D.F. Kitto.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) Marco Polo.

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

3. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Political.
(c) Quantitative.
(d) Industrial.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?

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

3. Who wrote "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization"?

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

5. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Davis' conclusion about the patterns of urbanization in "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does V. Gordon Childe's "The Urban Revolution" re-categorize history?

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