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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 does the 13th Amendment prohibit?
(a) Discriminating based on race or religion.
(b) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(c) Denying citizens due process.
(d) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.

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

3. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(b) Because communities refused to admit them.
(c) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(d) Because they could not afford them.

4. What is de jure segregation?
(a) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(b) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(c) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.
(d) Government policies keeping races apart.

5. What is de facto segregation?
(a) Government policies keeping races apart.
(b) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(c) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(d) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was David Bohannon a developer after World War II?

2. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?

3. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?

4. What excuses does Rothstein say federal officials used to hide the racist consequences of housing policy?

5. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?

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