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

2. What is referred to as the relationship and interaction between governmental and non-governmental bodies, seeing how they interact and get results in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Obediance.
(b) Tug of war.
(c) Power tolerance.
(d) Regime theory.

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

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

5. When was "The Culture of Poverty" first published?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ebenezer Howard from?

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

3. When was "The Black Underclass" first published?

4. Who wrote "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What three possible city plans are presented in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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