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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Suppressed Incomes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What order does Rothstein say the police had been given in relation to the riot at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) Not to interfere.
(b) To protect the family’s property.
(c) To keep the protest peaceful.
(d) To ban the use of alcohol.

2. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(b) It helped hide it.
(c) It encouraged it.
(d) It fought it.

3. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?
(a) Rothstein says he wants to show that segregation involved good people on both sides of the issue.
(b) Rothstein wanted to demonstrate how our current problems are rooted in historical trends.
(c) Rothstein says that he wants to make it clear that segregation was a deliberate policy of the U.S. government.
(d) Rothstein says he wanted to expose the details that reveal the inaccuracies at the heart of federal housing policy.

4. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Selling homes to African Americans.
(b) Intermarriage.
(c) Black business ownership.
(d) Employing African Americans.

5. What else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?
(a) What religion the residents would practice.
(b) What color the house could be painted.
(c) What kinds of business could be run out of the house.
(d) Who could visit the house as guests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is de jure segregation?

2. How does Rothstein say UCLA students got black students into their racially exclusive neighborhood?

3. How does Rothstein say the IRS abetted segregation?

4. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

5. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?

(see the answer key)

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