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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. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?
(a) Jones.
(b) Buchanan.
(c) Brown.
(d) Shelley.

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

3. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?
(a) He argued in favor of segregated housing in 1918.
(b) He argued for integrated housing.
(c) He argued for separate but equal housing.
(d) He argued for a market-based approach to integrate.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?

2. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

3. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?

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

5. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

(see the answer key)

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