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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Ebenezer Howard from?
(a) Spain.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

2. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) London.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Crete.
(d) Rome.

3. Who wrote "A Contemporary City"?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Olmsted.
(c) Hambleton.
(d) Le Corbusier.

4. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
(a) H.D.F. Kitto.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Henri Pirenne.
(d) Bernal Diaz.

5. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?
(a) Democratic voting.
(b) Community organization.
(c) The rule of the King.
(d) Freedom of the press.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?

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

3. When was Friedrich Engels born?

4. The author of "The Black Underclass" argues that upwardly mobile men have moved out of poor black communities, depriving these communities of what?

5. Lewis Mumford presents the city as a collection of primary groups assembled together, with their physical organization determining levels of what?

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