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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. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1944.

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

3. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because they could not afford them.
(b) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(c) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(d) Because communities refused to admit them.

4. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.
(b) Limits on black contractors.
(c) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(d) Excluding black workers from skills positions.

5. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?
(a) Redistribution, as families moved west.
(b) Glut.
(c) Collapse.
(d) Shortage.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?

2. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

3. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?

4. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?

5. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?

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