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

2. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?
(a) Rothstein says he wants to show that segregation involved good people on both sides of the issue.
(b) Rothstein says that he wants to make it clear that segregation was a deliberate policy of the U.S. government.
(c) Rothstein says he wanted to expose the details that reveal the inaccuracies at the heart of federal housing policy.
(d) Rothstein wanted to demonstrate how our current problems are rooted in historical trends.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?

3. When did the PWA end?

4. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?

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

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