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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. In which neighborhood does Rothstein say whites “declared war” on African-American residents, and drove them out of the neighborhood?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Levittown in Long Island.
(c) Woodlawn in Chicago.
(d) Memphis Tennessee.

2. Why did it not matter to black families that the courts generally saw through the racial motivations of developers who demolished black or integrated neighborhoods?
(a) The courts offered no recompense and demanded no changes.
(b) By the time they won, the neighborhoods had been demolished.
(c) The victories did not come with any enforcement mechanism.
(d) The court decisions were just ignored by government officials.

3. How does Rothstein characterize the federal, state and local government officials’ racial intent in suppressing African-American wages?
(a) Unintentional.
(b) Obfuscated.
(c) Undisguised.
(d) Coded.

4. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Single-family.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Agricultural.
(d) Multi-family.

5. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They stopped amortizing them.
(b) They made them shorter.
(c) They extended them to black families.
(d) They amortized them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?

2. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?

3. What does Rothstein say African Americans got after the Civil War?

4. Why does Rothstein say the Mereday family did not apply for mortgages?

5. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?

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