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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Michael Porter.
(b) Frederic Stout.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Kenneth Jackson.

2. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Quantitative.
(c) Political.
(d) Industrial.

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

4. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Frederic Stout.
(c) John Reps.
(d) Larry S. Bourne.

5. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?
(a) Disciplines.
(b) Scientific laws.
(c) Degrees.
(d) Theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What research method involves the analysis of statistical data?

2. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

3. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."

4. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

5. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?

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