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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. 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?
(a) Built integrated projects.
(b) Built more segregated projects in defiance of the Supreme Court.
(c) Stopped building projects.
(d) Changed the names of their developments to provide a sheen of integration.

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

3. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Limits on black contractors.
(b) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.
(c) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(d) Excluding black workers from skills positions.

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(b) Fair share policies.
(c) Racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Racial zoning ordinances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?

2. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

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

4. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?

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

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