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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first of the five zones of the city described in "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?
(a) The financial zone.
(b) The government zone.
(c) The urban zone.
(d) The shopping district.

2. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
(a) Silver.
(b) Space.
(c) Utopian.
(d) Industrial.

3. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) 1400 B.C.
(b) 1500 B.C.
(c) 1500 A.D.
(d) 1300 B.C.

4. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) Raymond Mohl.
(c) James Q. Wilson.
(d) Lewis Mumford.

5. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Gods.
(c) The Ottomans.
(d) The Greeks.

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

7. According to Ernest W. Burgess what is central to the expansion of cities?
(a) Decentralization.
(b) Wealth.
(c) The mayor's office.
(d) Culture.

8. Who is the second editor listed in the Introduction from the Editors?
(a) Raymond Mohl.
(b) Larry S. Bourne.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Frederic Stout.

9. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?
(a) Essential.
(b) Unrelated.
(c) Without limit.
(d) Interrelated.

10. When was "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" first published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1959.

11. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?
(a) Political.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Quantitative.

12. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?
(a) Theories.
(b) Disciplines.
(c) Scientific laws.
(d) Degrees.

13. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Emergency services.
(b) Paths.
(c) Homes.
(d) Businesses.

14. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Frederic Stout's.
(b) John Forester's.
(c) James Q. Wilson's.
(d) Lewis Mumford's.

15. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."
(a) Industrial.
(b) Hereditary.
(c) Random.
(d) Political.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Nature in the Metropolis," Ian McHarg writes about the best way to construct a city in harmony with what?

2. Richard LeGates points out that colleges and universities today have a tendency to do what to knowledge, according to "How to Study Cities"?

3. What did the concept of polis stress in its establishment of temples, stadiums, and theaters?

4. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?

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

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