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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. When was Friedrich Engels born?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1822.

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

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

4. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) Forbes.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) Town Planning Review.

5. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Compartmentalize.
(b) Trivialize.
(c) Cheapen.
(d) Over analyze.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "The Great Towns" first published?

2. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?

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

4. 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"?

5. 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?

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