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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. The author of "The Black Underclass" argues that upwardly mobile men have moved out of poor black communities, depriving these communities of what?
(a) Congressmen.
(b) Priests.
(c) Potential leaders.
(d) Father figures.

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

3. What is the second of four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Preemptive.
(b) Command/social.
(c) Systematic.
(d) Coalition.

4. What did Ebenezer Howard call the central area in his Utopian cities in "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"?
(a) The Green Obelisk.
(b) Crystal Palace.
(c) The Ivory Tower.
(d) The Drum Circle.

5. Who authored "The City as Image"?
(a) John Mollenkopf.
(b) Burton Pike.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

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

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

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

5. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has planning changed, according to Peter Hall in "The City of Theory"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are the benefits of public parks, according to Frederick Law Olmstead?

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

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

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