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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. 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?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

2. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) Robin Hambleton.
(c) Saskia Sassen.
(d) Raymond Unwin.

3. What kind of streets does the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" argue have reduced urban overcrowding?
(a) Narrow, straight streets.
(b) Wide, curved streets.
(c) Narrow, curved streets.
(d) Wide, straight streets.

4. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?
(a) My First Goat.
(b) The Long Road.
(c) The Bell Curve.
(d) Dinner With Mabel.

5. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Christopher Alexander..
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Michael Young.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author discusses the developments in the U.S. and U.K. for the past how many years?

2. Who is the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?

3. 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"?

4. 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?

5. Who wrote "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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