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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 current trends of the urban life does Mumford refer to as the "postnucleated city"?
(a) Dissociation and demoralization.
(b) Demoralization and decentralization.
(c) Dissociation and decentralization.
(d) Demoralization and dismay.

2. When was "Regime Theory and Urban Politics" first published?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1992.

3. "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" describe the relationships of the working class in what British area?
(a) Staffordshire.
(b) London.
(c) Williamshire.
(d) Bethnal Green.

4. Where was Patrick Geddes from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Greenland.

5. In "Keeping Themselves to Themselves," one of the main reasons for the failure of the relocation, the authors contest, is that the inhabitants moved into what kind of community?
(a) Unincorporated.
(b) Unprepared.
(c) Unsophisticated.
(d) Unestablished.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would serve as the "lungs" of the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?

3. When was "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" first published?

4. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"

5. What kind of cities does Ebenezer Howard present as a protest against overcrowding?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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