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

2. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1917.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1968.

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

4. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?
(a) Wage suppression and wage theft.
(b) Mass incarceration.
(c) Lynching and other forms of terrorism.
(d) Public housing.

5. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They restored it.
(b) They exacerbated it.
(c) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(d) They remedied it.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the PWA end?

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

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

4. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?

5. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?

(see the answer key)

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