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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. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?
(a) 2007.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1968.

2. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Crime.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Crowded homes.
(d) Poor educational opportunities.

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

4. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?
(a) Contract sales.
(b) Cash sales.
(c) Deferred sales.
(d) Straw man sales.

5. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?
(a) Guerilla warfare.
(b) Presidential election.
(c) Expiration of a treaty period.
(d) Demonstrable improvements in integration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rothstein say is one of the most common justifications for segregation?

3. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?

4. 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?

5. What is reverse redlining?

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