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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Public Housing, Black Ghettos.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?
(a) Integrating communities.
(b) Segregating communities.
(c) Relocating communities.
(d) Preserving communities.

2. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1928.

3. What is de jure segregation?
(a) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(b) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(c) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.
(d) Government policies keeping races apart.

4. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?
(a) Housing was fully covered by anti-discrimination laws.
(b) Housing was not related to slavery.
(c) Housing was a human right.
(d) Housing was only accountable to the market.

5. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?
(a) Indigent people.
(b) The working poor.
(c) Lower- and middle-class families.
(d) Refugees from sharecropping.

Short Answer Questions

1. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?

2. What is de facto segregation?

3. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

4. What does Rothstein say the Department of Housing and Urban Development do when the Supreme Court delivered a 1971 decision that said they had to construct projects in predominantly-white neighborhoods?

5. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

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