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

2. What is redlining?
(a) Charging higher interest on a managing.
(b) Refusing to offer mortgages to black families in certain areas.
(c) Increasing the amount a family has to put down to get a mortgage.
(d) Placing neighborhoods next to industrial neighborhoods.

3. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1933.

4. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1928.

5. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Richmond, VA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?

2. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

3. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?

4. 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?

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

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