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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Considering Fixes, and Epilogue, pages 195-218.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the second Great Migration that brought black families north?
(a) In the 1890s.
(b) During World War II.
(c) In the 1920s.
(d) During World War I.

2. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?
(a) Rothstein says he wanted to expose the details that reveal the inaccuracies at the heart of federal housing policy.
(b) Rothstein wanted to demonstrate how our current problems are rooted in historical trends.
(c) Rothstein says that he wants to make it clear that segregation was a deliberate policy of the U.S. government.
(d) Rothstein says he wants to show that segregation involved good people on both sides of the issue.

3. Why did it not matter to black families that the courts generally saw through the racial motivations of developers who demolished black or integrated neighborhoods?
(a) The court decisions were just ignored by government officials.
(b) The courts offered no recompense and demanded no changes.
(c) By the time they won, the neighborhoods had been demolished.
(d) The victories did not come with any enforcement mechanism.

4. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?
(a) Suburbs.
(b) Exurbs.
(c) Inner cities.
(d) Country.

5. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) World War II.
(b) 1960s.
(c) New Deal.
(d) World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?

2. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

3. In what way were African Americans still bought and sold even after the end of slavery?

4. Where did Wilbur Gary buy a home that made him the target of racist violence?

5. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?

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