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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. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?
(a) Housing was fully covered by anti-discrimination laws.
(b) Housing was a human right.
(c) Housing was not related to slavery.
(d) Housing was only accountable to the market.

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

3. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(b) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(c) Because they could not afford them.
(d) Because communities refused to admit them.

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Racial zoning ordinances.
(b) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(c) Racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Fair share policies.

5. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

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 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?

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

5. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?

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