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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author of "The Black Underclass" argues that upwardly mobile men have moved out of poor black communities, depriving these communities of what?
(a) Potential leaders.
(b) Father figures.
(c) Priests.
(d) Congressmen.

3. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Quantitative.
(b) Political.
(c) Qualitative.
(d) Industrial.

4. When was Ebenezer Howard born?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1836.

5. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?
(a) Christopher Alexander.
(b) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(c) Jane Jacobs.
(d) Michael Young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?

2. Who was the author of "The Polis"?

3. Kevin Lynch writes in "The City Image and Its Elements" about concepts that are common to cities and necessary for these areas to be what?

4. What group concedes that economic forces come into play, but that urban political theory also needs to draw on theories of the state in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

5. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

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