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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Robin Hambleton.

2. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?
(a) "The Factual Town."
(b) "Total Utopia."
(c) "The City of Theory."
(d) "It Takes A Village."

3. When was "The Culture of Poverty" first published?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1958.

4. Where was Patrick Geddes from?
(a) Greenland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Scotland.

5. When was Patrick Geddes born?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1854.

6. 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) 1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1960s.

7. Who wrote "A Contemporary City"?
(a) Le Corbusier.
(b) Hambleton.
(c) Olmsted.
(d) Wilson.

8. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Genoe.

9. What did Ebenezer Howard call the central area in his Utopian cities in "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"?
(a) Crystal Palace.
(b) The Green Obelisk.
(c) The Drum Circle.
(d) The Ivory Tower.

10. What is referred to as the relationship and interaction between governmental and non-governmental bodies, seeing how they interact and get results in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Power tolerance.
(b) Obediance.
(c) Tug of war.
(d) Regime theory.

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

12. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"
(a) Utilities.
(b) Emergency service.
(c) Social needs.
(d) Building codes.

13. "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" compares the trade and manufacturing of midland England, for example, versus the financial functions of what major cities?
(a) New York and London.
(b) Boston and Philadelphia.
(c) Chicago and St. Louis.
(d) Paris and Los Angeles.

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

15. When was "Choosing a Future" first published?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rejects economic and social controls and see politics as the study of systematic power in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

2. What is the first city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?

3. What is the first of several responses to developments of local governments given by the author in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

4. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

5. What publication is Ebenezer Howard most well-known for publishing?

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