View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) Protection for the powerless.
(b) A fair society.
(c) Reparations.
(d) Return to places of origin.

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

3. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?
(a) Housing was not related to slavery.
(b) Housing was only accountable to the market.
(c) Housing was a human right.
(d) Housing was fully covered by anti-discrimination laws.

4. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?
(a) 19th.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 13th.
(d) 5th,13th, 14th.

5. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?
(a) Lynching and other forms of terrorism.
(b) Public housing.
(c) Mass incarceration.
(d) Wage suppression and wage theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

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

3. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 288 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample