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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. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1917.
(d) 2001.

2. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.
(b) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.
(c) Establish racial neighborhood zones.
(d) Push for integration in neighborhoods.

3. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Built equity.
(b) Concentrated them in slums.
(c) Subjected them to mass incarceration.
(d) Denied them wages.

4. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) Scattered throughout the exurbs.
(b) In the country.
(c) Slums.
(d) In the suburbs.

5. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) New Deal.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

2. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?

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

4. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

5. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?

(see the answer key)

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