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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. How many residents live in the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 1.5 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 2.5 million.

2. What is the second city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
(a) Security.
(b) Managing power.
(c) Efficient consumption.
(d) Eliminating the difference between producers and consumers.

3. What kind of cities does Ebenezer Howard present as a protest against overcrowding?
(a) Floating cities.
(b) Flat cities.
(c) Suicide cities.
(d) Garden cities.

4. Who wrote "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Frederick Law Olmsted.
(c) Saskia Sassen.
(d) Frank Lloyd Wright.

5. According to the author of "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns," parks combat vice and what?
(a) Obesity.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Internal rage.
(d) Social degeneration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the authors of "Cities and Uneven Economic Development"?

2. When was "Regime Theory and Urban Politics" first published?

3. What is the third city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?

4. Where was Patrick Geddes from?

5. Who wrote "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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