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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 was the Fair Housing Act passed?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1985.

2. 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?
(a) Changed the names of their developments to provide a sheen of integration.
(b) Built integrated projects.
(c) Stopped building projects.
(d) Built more segregated projects in defiance of the Supreme Court.

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

4. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) Return to places of origin.
(b) A fair society.
(c) Reparations.
(d) Protection for the powerless.

5. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?

3. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?

4. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?

5. What is de facto segregation?

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