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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Racial zoning ordinances.
(b) Fair share policies.
(c) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(d) Racially restrictive covenants.

3. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) An airport.
(b) An integrated neighborhood.
(c) A shopping district.
(d) A white slum.

4. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?
(a) They advocated subsides for African-American families.
(b) They advocated for a free market approach.
(c) They did not describe policies for integration.
(d) They advocated for integrated housing.

5. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?
(a) In a segregated neighborhood.
(b) In a slum.
(c) In a comfortable suburb.
(d) In an integrating neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?

2. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?

3. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?

4. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?

5. What does Rothstein say African Americans got after the Civil War?

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