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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) Michael Young.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Burton Pike.

2. When was "What is a City?" first published?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1924.

3. What term refers to a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order?
(a) Pecking order.
(b) Rank.
(c) Hierarchy.
(d) Seniority.

4. When was John Kasarda's "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" first published?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1990.

5. Who is the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Robin Hambleton.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ebenezer Howard call the central area in his Utopian cities in "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"?

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

3. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?

4. When was Patrick Geddes's "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" first published?

5. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John Kasarda concluted in "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch"?

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

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

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

5. What questions are posed in John Mollenkopf's "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

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

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

8. What would the outer and inner city contain in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

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

10. What does Gerry Stoker define regime theory as in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

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