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

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

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

4. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(b) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
(c) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(d) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.

5. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1986.
(c) 2007.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

2. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

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

4. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?

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

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