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

2. When was conservative icon Charles Murray born?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

3. When was "How to Study Urban Political Power" first published?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1992.

4. "What is a City?" discusses the urban experience as what to human life?
(a) Detrimental.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) Central.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many boulevards would shoot off the city center in Ebenezer Howard's "The Town-Country Magnet"?

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

3. According to the author of "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns," parks combat vice and what?

4. Who does the author of "The Black Underclass" criticize for their fear to confront the issues of the poor black community?

5. What current trends of the urban life does Mumford refer to as the "postnucleated city"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 are the benefits of public parks, according to Frederick Law Olmstead?

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

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