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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 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?
(a) Stopped building projects.
(b) Built integrated projects.
(c) Changed the names of their developments to provide a sheen of integration.
(d) Built more segregated projects in defiance of the Supreme Court.

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

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

4. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) Protection for the powerless.
(b) Reparations.
(c) Return to places of origin.
(d) A fair society.

5. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Jim Crow.
(b) Reign of Terror.
(c) Racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Apartheid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

2. When did the PWA end?

3. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?

4. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

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

(see the answer key)

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