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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. According to the author of "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns," parks combat vice and what?
(a) Social degeneration.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Obesity.
(d) Internal rage.

2. When was Patrick Geddes's "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" first published?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1913.

3. What does the author of "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" write advanced a democratic society, taking pressure off of different classes by giving them an area that they can all enjoy?
(a) National parks.
(b) Urban centers.
(c) Green space.
(d) Vertical dwellings.

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

5. When was "Choosing a Future" first published?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1983.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?

2. Who discuss the implications of social complexities and question what the advantage of interests implies, according to the author of "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

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

4. 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"?

5. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is detailed in "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?

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

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

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

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

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

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