INTRO TO THE CITY

CHAPTER 10

SAMPLE TEST

 

 

Chapter 10 Exam Questions

Multiple Choice:

  1. According to Wirth, urbanism describes
    1. the fast growth of cities since World War II
    2. the distinctive lifestyle associated with the growth of cities
    3. the social movement which make cities more humane
    4. a negative transformation of cities

 

  1. Wirth would argue that cities differ from small towns or rural areas by
    1. their large number of heterogeneous people
    2. high density
    3. cosmopolitan lifestyle

d.  all of the above

 

  1. Gans argues that Wirth’s analysis of the urban lifestyle was
    1. applicable to part of the urban population
    2. completely wrong
    3. valid in Third World cities only
    4. becoming more accurate with time

 

  1. Gans’s “Cosmopolites” are
    1. immigrants from all over the world
    2. relatively poor
    3. usually highly educated
    4. single and without children

 

  1. Individuals in Gans’s “Unmarried and Childless” category
    1. live in suburbs
    2. own single-family residences
    3. are responsible for the gentrification of urban neighborhoods
    4. have become a smaller part of the urban population

 

  1. According to Gans, urban lifestyles are shaped most strongly by
    1. the city’s size and density
    2. the market forces
    3. social position and age
    4. all of the above

 

  1. Recent research on homelessness found that
    1. the majority of homeless individuals are drug addicts
    2. families are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population
    3. people become homeless because they are unemployed
    4. fortunately, few children are homeless

 

  1. Claude Fischer believes that
    1. the city’s ecology intensify people’s subcultural characteristics
    2. Wirth’s theory was not useful
    3. critical masses are dangerous
    4. social classes are most important

 

  1. The fastest growing urban region is
    1. the inner city
    2. the center business district
    3. the suburbs
    4. none of the above

 

  1. In 1990, approximately what proportion of the U.S. population resided in suburbs?
    1. 46 percent
    2. 35 percent
    3. 52 percent
    4. almost 60 percent

 

  1. Suburban growth in the 1850s was
    1. promoted by railroads
    2. due to the fact that people could not afford housing in the cities
    3. incredibly fast
    4. both a and c

 

  1. The area of Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania
    1. illustrates the rapid suburban growth which followed World War II
    2. was one of the nation’s first suburbs
    3. became a suburb following the spread of automobiles
    4. was promoted by the federal fair housing legislation of 1968

 

  1. Suburban growth after World War II was promoted by
    1. people’s desire to own a home
    2. economic prosperity
    3. the desire to escape minority-occupied housing of the central cities
    4. all of the above

 

  1. Since the 1970s, suburbs have become
    1. increasingly more affluent on average
    2. politically weaker
    3. more racially diversified
    4. all of the above

 

  1. The Exurbs are
    1. the oldest suburbs
    2. suburbs out of which white people have moved
    3. blue-collar suburbs located near shipbuilding and metalworking industries
    4. the newer ring of settlement beyond the old suburbs

 

True-False:

1.      1.         For Wirth, social characteristics determine urban lifestyles.

2.      2.         Gans’s theory is based on Wirth’s findings.

3.      3.         Cosmopolitanism is found in many small college towns.

4.      4.         Large cities contain places where localism abounds.

5.      5.         The Jewish Lower East Side in New York City best illustrates Gans’s “trapped” category.

6.      6.         “Ethnic villagers” tend to be younger.

7.      7.         The mentally ill constitute one-fourth of the homeless population.

8.      8.         Gentrification provides new affordable housing in the inner-city.

9.      9.         The average age of a homeless child is three

10.  10.   Urbanization necessarily generates urbanism.

11.  11.   Fischer rejects the role of Wirth’s ecological forces.

12.  12.   The suburban population is growing three times as fast as the US population.

13.  13.   The automobile slowed the expansion of suburbs.

14.  14.   The first suburbs were very poor.

15.  15.   Slipover communities are direct outgrowths of center-city black ghettos.

16.  16.   Suburbanites tend to go back to the city for shopping and entertainment.

17.  17.   Suburbs typically lack political organization.

18.  18.   A greater proportion of Asians live in suburbia than any other racial or ethnic category.

 

ANSWERS

MULTIPLE CHOICE:

1.  B                       6.  C                            11.  A

2.  D                      7.  B                             12.  B

3.  A                      8.  A                            13.  D

4.  C                      9.  C                            14.  C

5.  C                      10.  A                          15.  D

TRUE-FALSE:

1.  F                       6.  F                             11.  F                           16.  F

2.  F                       7.  T                             12.  T                           17.  F

3.  T                       8.  F                             13.  F                           18.  T

4.  T                       9.  T                             14.  F

5.  F                       10.  F                           15.  T