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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. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?
(a) Brown.
(b) Jones.
(c) Buchanan.
(d) Shelley.

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

3. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Richmond, CA.
(b) Camden, NJ.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Chicago.

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

5. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?
(a) Murdering unarmed black people to keep them out of the city.
(b) Harassing blacks with petty arrests.
(c) Vandalizing model homes in integrated developments.
(d) Allowing racist mobs to commit crimes with impunity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?

2. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?

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

4. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?

5. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

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