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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 is de jure segregation?
(a) Government policies keeping races apart.
(b) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(c) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(d) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.

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

3. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?
(a) Mass incarceration.
(b) Wage suppression and wage theft.
(c) Public housing.
(d) Lynching and other forms of terrorism.

4. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(b) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(c) Because communities refused to admit them.
(d) Because they could not afford them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?

2. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?

3. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?

4. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

5. What is de facto segregation?

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