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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 Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) World War II.
(b) 1930s.
(c) World War I.
(d) 1960s.

2. 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) Excluding black workers from skills positions.
(c) Limits on black contractors.
(d) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.

3. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?
(a) Inner cities.
(b) Suburbs.
(c) Country.
(d) Exurbs.

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

5. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2007.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?

2. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

3. What is de facto segregation?

4. When did the U.S. start building public housing?

5. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

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