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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Local Tactics.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) World War II.
(b) 1960s.
(c) World War I.
(d) 1930s.

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

4. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?
(a) 40%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 85%.
(d) 55%.

5. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say makes the racially restrictive covenants a state-sponsored strategy for de jure segregation?

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

3. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?

4. What else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?

5. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?

(see the answer key)

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