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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. How does Rothstein characterize the housing policy as Richmond California built public housing during wartime?
(a) Single-family housing for whites, multi-family housing for blacks.
(b) Affordable housing for whites, exploitative prices for blacks.
(c) Large lots for whites, small lots for blacks.
(d) Permanent housing for whites, temporary housing for blacks.

2. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Detroit.

3. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Employing African Americans.
(b) Selling homes to African Americans.
(c) Black business ownership.
(d) Intermarriage.

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

5. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Single-family.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Multi-family.
(d) Agricultural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

2. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

3. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

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

5. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

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