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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: “Own Your Own Home”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?
(a) History.
(b) Racial strife.
(c) Political powerlessness.
(d) Poverty.

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

3. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?
(a) For lying to appraisers.
(b) For selling his house to a black family.
(c) For voting against his neighborhoods racially restrictive covenants.
(d) For offering a private mortgage to a black family.

4. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

5. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Revised it to make it more inclusive.
(b) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(c) Used the plan anyway.
(d) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.

Short Answer Questions

1. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?

2. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?

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

4. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?

5. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?

(see the answer key)

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