Chapter 1 Examination Questions

1B Copyright © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.Chapter 1 Examination Questions Multiple Choice 1.While only 9% of the world’s population lived in cities in 1900, approxim ately what percent will be city dwellers in 2050 if present trends continue?a.33% b.66% c.88% d.99%

Correct Answer: B

1.1: Recognize how most people are captivated by cities

Topic/Concept: Why Study the City?

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

2.Although the human species has existed on Earth for at least 200,000 years, cities began to appear how many years ago?a.50,000

• 25,000

c.10,000

• 5,000

Correct Answer: C

1.4: Describe the ecological process of invasion–succession as seen in emerging cities Topic/Concept: The Complexity of the City: Various Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

3.What city did Richard Henry Dana allude to in his classic Two Years Before the Mast?a.New York b.Pittsburgh c.Boston d.San Francisco

Correct Answer: D

1.3a: Investigate the factors that lead to urban growth and development

1.3b: Evaluate the characteristics of the urban way of life

Topic/Concept: The Urban Transformation

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

4.Early sociologists were pessimistic about the study of cities because city life was Cities and Urban Life, 7e John J. Macionis (Test Bank, All Chapters. 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade) 1 / 4

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considered dangerous. More contemporary studies have shown this to be based on

• economic conditions.
• political unrest.
• false evidence.
• hard science.

Correct Answer: C

1.4: Describe the ecological process of invasion–succession as seen in emerging cities Topic/Concept: The Complexity of the City: Various Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply What You Know

• When did early sociologists begin to turn their attentions to cities?
• The late 17

th century

• The mid-18

th century

• The late 19

th century

• The mid-20

th century

Correct Answer: C

LO#/text:1.4: Describe the ecological process of invasion–succession as seen in emerging cities Topic/Concept:The Complexity of the City: Various Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

• Early scholars of urbanization portrayed the city as
• a place of unlimited opportunity.
• a dangerous place where community and family were threatened.
• a place where both opportunity and danger coexisted.
• the main cause of industrialization.

Correct Answer: B

1.4: Describe the ecological process of invasion–succession as seen in emerging cities Topic/Concept: The Complexity of the City: Various Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

• The area of study in which urbanists try to understand why cities are located in particular

places is called

• urban geography.
• urban ecology.
• social psychology.
• social demography.

Correct Answer: A 2 / 4

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1.4: Describe the ecological process of invasion–succession as seen in emerging cities Topic/Concept: The Complexity of the City: Various Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

• The area of study in which urbanists try to understand why people disperse within cities

the way they do is called

• urban geography.
• urban ecology.
• social psychology.
• social demography.

Correct Answer: B

1.4: Describe the ecological process of invasion–succession as seen in emerging cities Topic/Concept: The Complexity of the City: Various Perspectives

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

• The “anatomy” of modern North American cities has been characterized by declining

population growth.Which of the following regions best illustrate this phenomenon?

• Sunbelt region
• Midwest
• New England
• Northwest

Correct Answer: A

1.5: Enumerate the population percentage change of the 30 largest U.S. Cities

Topic/Concept: The Anatomy of Modern North American Cities

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply what you know

• Demographers suggest that the growth of exurban regions far beyond the

urbancoreresults from

• the desire of many people to live a simpler life.
• a disdain for suburban life.
• a breakdown of the traditional family unit.
• the exodus of business and industry from central cities.

Correct Answer: D

1.5: Enumerate the population percentage change of the 30 largest U.S. Cities

Topic/Concept: The Anatomy of Modern North American Cities

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply what you know

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• According to Macionis and Parrillo, the most important consequence of

decliningpopulation growth in central cities for the people who remain is

• less opportunity to build a sense of community.
• less choice in consumption as a result of industry flight.
• more free space.
• less federal funding and political representation.

Correct Answer: D

1.5: Enumerate the population percentage change of the 30 largest U.S. Cities

Topic/Concept: 1.5: The Anatomy of Modern North American Cities

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply What You Know

• Through emerging social structures, urban living is shaped by
• transportation and public utilities.
• wealth and power disparities.
• individual choice and freedom.
• racial and ethnic identities.

Correct Answer: B

1.3b: Evaluate the characteristics of the urban way of life

Topic/Concept: The Urban Transformation

Difficulty Level: Difficult

Skill Level: Analyze It

• Cities are growing the fastest in the developing world. What is one negative consequence

of this?

• Urbanization is becoming less effective.
• Poverty and disease from urbanization
• Capitalism’s growth within urbanization
• Urbanization has increased access to health care.

Correct Answer: A

1.6: Explain how the urban situation is desperate in most cities of the developing world

Topic/Concept: The City in Global Perspective

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply What You Know

• Quality of urban life is indicated, in part, by
• lack of material wealth.
• degree of safety and security.
• presence of cultural capital.
• access to leisure activities.
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