1. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Harold Hoffman
(d) Because private developers refused to sell to them.

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

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

4. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?
(a) Preserving communities.
(b) Integrating communities.
(c) Segregating communities.
(d) Relocating communities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is de facto segregation?

3. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

4. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

5. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

(see the answer key)

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