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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. "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" compares the trade and manufacturing of midland England, for example, versus the financial functions of what major cities?
(a) Paris and Los Angeles.
(b) New York and London.
(c) Chicago and St. Louis.
(d) Boston and Philadelphia.

2. Who are the authors of "Cities and Uneven Economic Development"?
(a) Alan Warde and Saskia Sassen.
(b) Saskia Sassen and Mike Savage.
(c) Mike Savage and Alan Warde.
(d) Robin Hambleton and Alan Warde.

3. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"
(a) Social needs.
(b) Emergency service.
(c) Building codes.
(d) Utilities.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who authored "The City as Image"?

3. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?

4. In "Choosing a Future," Murray examines education as a possible solution, noting that many barriers to a fair education had already been eliminated by what era?

5. How many residents live in the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is questioned in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

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

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

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

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

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