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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 binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?
(a) Religious dictate.
(b) A moral obligation.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) International law.

2. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) Slums.
(b) In the suburbs.
(c) In the country.
(d) Scattered throughout the exurbs.

3. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?
(a) Vandalizing model homes in integrated developments.
(b) Harassing blacks with petty arrests.
(c) Allowing racist mobs to commit crimes with impunity.
(d) Murdering unarmed black people to keep them out of the city.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?

2. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

3. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?

4. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?

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

(see the answer key)

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