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

2. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) A shopping district.
(b) A white slum.
(c) An integrated neighborhood.
(d) An airport.

3. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(b) Limits on black contractors.
(c) Excluding black workers from skills positions.
(d) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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