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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. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?
(a) Rothstein says he wanted to expose the details that reveal the inaccuracies at the heart of federal housing policy.
(b) Rothstein wanted to demonstrate how our current problems are rooted in historical trends.
(c) Rothstein says he wants to show that segregation involved good people on both sides of the issue.
(d) Rothstein says that he wants to make it clear that segregation was a deliberate policy of the U.S. government.

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Camden, NJ.
(d) Richmond, CA.

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

4. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.
(b) Riots in Ferguson.
(c) Los Angeles race riots.
(d) White supremacists’ murders of black people.

5. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Concentrated them in slums.
(b) Built equity.
(c) Subjected them to mass incarceration.
(d) Denied them wages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?

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

3. When did the PWA end?

4. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

5. Where does Rothstein say Leroy Mereday was born?

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