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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Evolution of Cities.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Never-ending.
(c) Enlightening.
(d) Tedious.

2. Whose "thoughtful prescriptions for urban poverty" are discussed by LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) John Forester's.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Michael Porter's.
(d) Larry S. Bourne.

3. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?
(a) Kingsley Davis.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Kevin Lynch.

4. Who is the author of "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia"?
(a) W.E.B. Dubois.
(b) H.D.F. Kitto.
(c) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(d) Henri Pirenne.

5. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?
(a) Dublin.
(b) London.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Manchester.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?

3. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?

4. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?

5. When was the article "Levittown and America" first published?

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