Q 01/05

What kind of retailer traditionally anchors a shopping mall?

A) Multiplex cinemas

B) Department stores

C) Supermarkets

D) Bookshops

Answer · why

B) Department stores

Anchors are placed as far apart as possible so shoppers walk past the smaller stores between them.

Q 02/05

What did the word "mall" originally mean before it was applied to enclosed shopping centres in the late 1960s?

A) A pedestrian promenade with shops

B) A parking lot beside a highway

C) A row of dockside warehouses

D) A covered market hall for produce

Answer · why

A) A pedestrian promenade with shops

Bergen Mall used the name in 1957, but such places were still called shopping centers for another decade.

Q 03/05

A shopping centre that has lost its anchor stores and most of its shoppers is popularly known as what?

A) A dead mall

B) A grey mall

C) A stripped mall

D) A hollow mall

Answer · why

A) A dead mall

Ghost mall and zombie mall are the alternatives.

Q 04/05

According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, how much gross leasable area makes a mall "super-regional"?

A) Over 2 million square feet

B) Over 400,000 square feet

C) Over 100,000 square feet

D) Over 800,000 square feet

Answer · why

D) Over 800,000 square feet

A regional mall runs 400,000 to 800,000 square feet with at least two anchors.

Q 05/05

The first covered shopping passage, built in 1798, was in which city?

A) Milan

B) Paris

C) London

D) Vienna

Answer · why

B) Paris

The Passage du Caire came two decades before London's Burlington Arcade.