MCQ Bank
Which of the following was a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality?
- A) Traditionalism
- B) Post-modernism
- C) Pre-Modernism
- D) Modernism
The concept of “Exurbia” is taken from a book of which one of the following sociologists?
- A) A.C Spectorsky
- B) G.H Mead
- C) W.E.B du Bois
- D) C.W.Mills
A process which leads to a higher proportion of the population of an area to live in cities and towns is called?
- A) Transportation
- B) Immigration
- C) Out-migration
- D) Urbanization
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of suburbia?
- A) Separated homes and workplaces
- B) Effective street connectivity
- C) Lack of activity centers
- D) Low development density
Which one of the following is considered as a spatial science?
- A) Urban Ecology
- B) Gender Studies
- C) Political Sociology
- D) International Relations
A process that creates growth, progress and positive change is known as:
- A) Urbanization
- B) Development
- C) Specialization
- D) Transformation
Pre-industrial cities are the urban settlements that existed before _______ era.
- A) Post-Modern
- B) Pre-Modern
- C) Industrial
- D) Pre-Historic
Any criminal offense committed in a public place is called?
- A) Burglary
- B) White collar crime
- C) Organized crime
- D) Street crime
The ________ is a social unit that defines the outlines of a social mind.
- A) Neighborhood
- B) Baradary
- C) Caste
- D) Family
Which of the following is NOT a feature of a slum?
- A) Access to security
- B) Insecure residential status
- C) Poor structural quality of housing
- D) Overcrowding
The term of edge city was originated in which one of the following countries?
- A) China
- B) UK
- C) France
- D) USA
Who described the aspect of the contemporary urban environment using the term “dis-figured city”?
- A) Herbert Marcuse
- B) Christine Boyer
- C) Patricia Hills
- D) Anthony Giddens
Urbanization can turn troublesome because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
- A) Over Population
- B) Unemployment
- C) Better Jobs
- D) Crimes
A locality marked by a cluster of tall buildings, cultural institutions and convergence of transportation system is known as:
- A) Exurb
- B) Suburb
- C) Outskirts
- D) Downtown
Which one of the following theories was developed in reaction to the determinist models of urbanism that assumed cities had harmful effects on people’s wellbeing?
- A) Post-modernist
- B) Sub-cultural
- C) Determinist
- D) Compositional
A phenomenon under which an entire city or part of a city deteriorates over time is known as:
- A) Moral Decline
- B) Urban Decline
- C) Structural Fault
- D) Rural Decline
A socially recognized group that forms an emotional connection among its members and serves as an economic unit of society is called:
- A) Peers
- B) Family
- C) Group
- D) Kin
Which one of the following is expelled from urban space with the growth of city?
- A) Power
- B) Location
- C) Identity
- D) Nature
To protect against the massive flux of unfiltered stimulations, the urbanite hides behind a kind of defensive system known as:
- A) Blasé
- B) Caring
- C) Social
- D) Emotional
Which of the following results from symbolic power asymmetry and not from ecological dynamics?
- A) Downtown
- B) Slum
- C) Suburb
- D) Ghetto