Test Bank for Chapter 1

Test Bank for Chapter 1

Multiple Choice

• While only 9% of the world’s population lived in cities in 1900, approximately what

percent will be city dwellers in 2030 if present trends continue?

• 30%
• 60%
• 80%
• 90%

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• Although the human species has existed on the earth for at least 100,000 years, cities

began to appear how many years ago?

• 50,000
• 25,000
• 10,000
• 5,000

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• What city did Richard Henry Dana allude to in his classic Two Years Before the Mast?
• New York
• Pittsburgh
• Boston
• San Francisco

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• Although historians have studied cities for centuries, in which of the academic

disciplines listed below were cities first studied systematically?

• economics
• political economy
• sociology
• political science

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• 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

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6. 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

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• 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
• none of the above

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• 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
• none of the above

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• The “Anatomy” of modern North American cities has been characterized by:
• declining urban population growth
• population migration to the Sunbelt region
• the growth of exurbs
• all of the above

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

core results 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

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

population growth in central cities for 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

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12. By social structure, urbanists mean:

• transportation, buildings, and public utilities
• patterns of city life shaped by wealth and power disparities
• patterns of city life shaped by individual choice
• none of the above

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• Which of the following is (are) true concerning urban growth in a global context?
• Growth rates are the highest in the developing world.
• Urbanization is an unmistakable trend everywhere.
• Poverty and disease result from urbanization for many people.
• all of the above

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• Which of the factors listed below is/are quality of urban life indicators?
• level of material wealth
• degree of safety and security
• sense of community
• all of the above

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True/False

• Cities are inextricably connected to the larger societies of which they are a part, and

have been the economic, political, and artistic core of various civilizations. (T) Page 2

• Cities have been the dominant type of human settlement since 2000 B.C.E. (F)

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• San Francisco, once known as Yerba Buena (“good herbs”), has always been an

easygoing city. (F)

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• The Industrial Revolution was seen by the first urban sociologists as an important

factor influencing the character of urban life, and contributed to their relatively pessimistic evaluation of cities. Today, however, cities are viewed more neutrally.(T)

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• Cities stimulate us so much because they provide each resident or visitor with very

different experiences. (F)

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• Aristotle suggested that people come to the city for security and remain to pursue

“the good life.” (T)

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• Invasion and succession is a well-documented ecological process by which whole

sections of a city change. (T)

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• While the study of the economics of land use within cities was dominated by an

ecological model emphasizing internal competition among residents until the 1960s, today many urbanists embrace the urban political economy perspective, which highlights the influence of external political forces. (T)

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