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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Urban Society and Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"
(a) Emergency service.
(b) Social needs.
(c) Utilities.
(d) Building codes.

2. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) Kevin Lynch.
(c) Kingsley Davis.
(d) Raymond Mohl.

3. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?
(a) Unimaginable.
(b) Vastly different.
(c) Fuzzy.
(d) Clearly drawn.

4. What kind of academic programs are referred to as those which bring the expertise of specialists from multiple disciplines together?
(a) Interdisciplinary programs.
(b) Doctorate programs.
(c) Megadisciplinary programs.
(d) Combidisciplinary programs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

2. When was Friedrich Engels born?

3. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?

4. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?

5. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?

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