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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. When was John Kasarda's "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" first published?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1993.

2. Where can wealth and fashionable residences be found in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Robson Street.
(b) Lakeshore Drive.
(c) North Main Street.
(d) Walker Drive.

3. When was "What is a City?" first published?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1936.

4. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?
(a) William Julius Wilson.
(b) John Reps.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) James Q. Wilson.

5. The editors of The City Reader have taught at the San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkley and what other institution, according to the Introduction from the Editors?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Coloumbia University.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was "The Culture of Poverty" first published?

2. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?

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

4. 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?

5. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?

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