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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s.

2. In "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author discusses the developments in the U.S. and U.K. for the past how many years?
(a) 21.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 15.

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

4. What kind of streets does the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" argue have reduced urban overcrowding?
(a) Narrow, straight streets.
(b) Narrow, curved streets.
(c) Wide, straight streets.
(d) Wide, curved streets.

5. Who is the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) William Julius Wilson.
(c) Raymond Unwin.
(d) Robin Hambleton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Patrick Geddes from?

2. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the British system is more what?

3. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"

4. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?

5. When was "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is detailed in "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?

2. What ideas do Frank S. So and Judith Getzel present in the anthology?

3. What questions are posed in John Mollenkopf's "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

4. What does John Kasarda concluted in "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch"?

5. What three possible city plans are presented in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

6. What are the benefits of public parks, according to Frederick Law Olmstead?

7. What does Ebenezer Howard propose for urban developers? Which articles are his?

8. What plans and theories are presented in "A Contemporary City"?

9. What are Saskia Sassen's views on development? What article discusses this?

10. How has planning changed, according to Peter Hall in "The City of Theory"?

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