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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: “Own Your Own Home”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) In the country.
(b) Slums.
(c) Scattered throughout the exurbs.
(d) In the suburbs.

2. 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?
(a) Stopped building projects.
(b) Changed the names of their developments to provide a sheen of integration.
(c) Built integrated projects.
(d) Built more segregated projects in defiance of the Supreme Court.

3. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?
(a) 19th.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 5th,13th, 14th.
(d) 13th.

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

5. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(b) They exacerbated it.
(c) They remedied it.
(d) They restored it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?

2. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?

3. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?

4. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

5. What does Rothstein say the FHA did to segregation in housing?

(see the answer key)

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