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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Public Housing, Black Ghettos.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is redlining?
(a) Increasing the amount a family has to put down to get a mortgage.
(b) Refusing to offer mortgages to black families in certain areas.
(c) Charging higher interest on a managing.
(d) Placing neighborhoods next to industrial neighborhoods.

3. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) Slums.
(b) Scattered throughout the exurbs.
(c) In the country.
(d) In the suburbs.

4. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) A shopping district.
(b) A white slum.
(c) An airport.
(d) An integrated neighborhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

2. When did the PWA end?

3. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?

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

5. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?

(see the answer key)

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