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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Private Agreements, Government Enforcement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) A moral obligation.
(c) International law.
(d) Religious dictate.

2. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It encouraged it.
(b) It helped hide it.
(c) It fought it.
(d) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.

3. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.
(b) Used the plan anyway.
(c) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(d) Revised it to make it more inclusive.

4. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(c) Harold Hoffman
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

5. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage of the mortgages in the U.S. does Rothstein say were the FHA and the Veterans Administration insuring by 1950?

3. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

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

5. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?

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