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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. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) World War I.
(b) 1960s.
(c) World War II.
(d) New Deal.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

2. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?

3. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?

4. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

5. What is de facto segregation?

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