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

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

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

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

5. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?
(a) 2nd.
(b) 13th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 5th,13th, 14th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?

2. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?

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

4. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?

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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