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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Future of The City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What controversial book is Charles Murray most well known for?
(a) Dinner With Mabel.
(b) The Long Road.
(c) My First Goat.
(d) The Bell Curve.

2. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1952.

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

4. Who wrote "Ecumenopolis, World City of Tomorrow"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Peter Calthorpe.
(c) Paolo Soleri.
(d) Constantin Doxiadis.

5. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?
(a) Paleolithic.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Neolithic.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man" and "The Characteristics of Arcology" were first published in what year?

2. When was Ebenezer Howard born?

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

4. What is the second of the five factors which "city of tomorrow" would emerge in "Ecumenopolis, World City of Tomorrow"?

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

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