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

2. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Burton Pike.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Michael Young.

3. What is the third city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
(a) Security.
(b) Efficient consumption.
(c) Managing power.
(d) Eliminating the difference between producers and consumers.

4. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?
(a) "It Takes A Village."
(b) "The City of Theory."
(c) "The Factual Town."
(d) "Total Utopia."

5. 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?
(a) Inept.
(b) Plural.
(c) Central.
(d) Greedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. "What is a City?" discusses the urban experience as what to human life?

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

4. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

5. What is the first of several responses to developments of local governments given by the author in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does John Kasarda concluted in "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch"?

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

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

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

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

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