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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 "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1928.

2. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?
(a) My First Goat.
(b) The Bell Curve.
(c) Dinner With Mabel.
(d) The Long Road.

3. When was "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America" first published?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1987.

4. When was "Choosing a Future" first published?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1977.

5. In "How to Study Urban Political Power," the author writes that there have been two groups of researchers studying city politics: the pluralists, and who?
(a) The realists.
(b) The structuralists.
(c) The urbanists.
(d) The ruralists.

Short Answer Questions

1. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the British system is more what?

2. In "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author discusses the developments in the U.S. and U.K. for the past how many years?

3. Who wrote "Place and Production in the Global Economy"?

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

5. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the study take place in "Kinship and Community"? Who conducted it?

2. What case studies are presented in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

3. What does Patrick Geddes describe in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?

4. What does Gerry Stoker write about "neo-pluralists"?

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

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

7. What negative aspects of poverty does Oscar Lewis describe?

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

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

10. What does Ebenezer Howard propose for urban developers? Which articles are his?

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