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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. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) Reparations.
(b) A fair society.
(c) Return to places of origin.
(d) Protection for the powerless.

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

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

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

5. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?
(a) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(b) Discriminating based on race or religion.
(c) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(d) Denying citizens due process.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein characterize the housing policy as Richmond California built public housing during wartime?

2. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?

3. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?

4. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?

5. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

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