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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 was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Denied them wages.
(b) Built equity.
(c) Concentrated them in slums.
(d) Subjected them to mass incarceration.

2. What does Rothstein say African Americans got after the Civil War?
(a) Protection.
(b) Nothing.
(c) 40 acres and a mule.
(d) Reparations.

3. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Push for integration in neighborhoods.
(b) Establish racial neighborhood zones.
(c) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.
(d) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.

4. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
(a) Segregated.
(b) Houses for whites, slums for blacks.
(c) Separate-but-equal.
(d) Integrated.

5. What percentage of the mortgages in the U.S. does Rothstein say were the FHA and the Veterans Administration insuring by 1950?
(a) 25%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 75%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is reverse redlining?

2. What is de facto segregation?

3. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?

4. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?

5. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

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