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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 is the author of "The Black Underclass"?
(a) Burton Pike.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Michael Young.

2. In "Keeping Themselves to Themselves," one of the main reasons for the failure of the relocation, the authors contest, is that the inhabitants moved into what kind of community?
(a) Unprepared.
(b) Unestablished.
(c) Unincorporated.
(d) Unsophisticated.

3. What kind of streets does the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" argue have reduced urban overcrowding?
(a) Wide, straight streets.
(b) Wide, curved streets.
(c) Narrow, curved streets.
(d) Narrow, straight streets.

4. Who wrote "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Robin Hambleton.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) Raymond Unwin.

5. What group concedes that economic forces come into play, but that urban political theory also needs to draw on theories of the state in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
(a) The pluralists.
(b) The structuralists.
(c) The communists.
(d) The futurists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second of four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

2. What would serve as the "lungs" of the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?

3. What is the fourth of the four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

4. Who wrote "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"?

5. When was Ebenezer Howard born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What picture of the urban poor is depicted in "The Black Underclass"?

2. What did the authors of "Kinship and Community" find in interviews with the residents? What happened after they relocated?

3. What is detailed in "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?

4. What is discussed and proposed in "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?

5. How does John Mollenkopf define structuralists and pluralists in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

6. What ideas do Frank S. So and Judith Getzel present in the anthology?

7. What does Oscar Lewis write about in the anthology? What are his theories?

8. What does Lewis Mumford write about urban development? Which article did he contribute?

9. What plans and theories are presented in "A Contemporary City"?

10. What are Saskia Sassen's views on development? What article discusses this?

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