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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. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?
(a) In a segregated neighborhood.
(b) In an integrating neighborhood.
(c) In a comfortable suburb.
(d) In a slum.

2. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?
(a) Murdering unarmed black people to keep them out of the city.
(b) Allowing racist mobs to commit crimes with impunity.
(c) Harassing blacks with petty arrests.
(d) Vandalizing model homes in integrated developments.

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

4. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They restored it.
(b) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(c) They exacerbated it.
(d) They remedied it.

5. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?
(a) Relocation.
(b) Race panicking.
(c) Slum clearing.
(d) Blockbusting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?

2. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?

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

4. How does Rothstein characterize the housing policy as Richmond California built public housing during wartime?

5. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?

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