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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?
(a) NHL.
(b) GIS.
(c) CIA.
(d) KGB.

2. Who was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla?
(a) Ibn Battuta.
(b) Bernal Diaz.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) Henri Pirenne.

3. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Limits.
(b) Edges.
(c) Walls.
(d) Imaginary.

4. In "Choosing a Future," Murray examines education as a possible solution, noting that many barriers to a fair education had already been eliminated by what era?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

5. 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) Bernal Diaz.
(d) Henri Pirenne.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "What is a City?" first published?

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

3. Who wrote "Place and Production in the Global Economy"?

4. When was "How to Study Urban Political Power" first published?

5. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?

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