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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Racial Zoning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1917.
(d) 2001.

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

3. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.
(b) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(c) Used the plan anyway.
(d) Revised it to make it more inclusive.

4. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.
(b) Blacks gained representation in government.
(c) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(d) Blacks were kept out of government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?

2. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?

3. What is de facto segregation?

4. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

5. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

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