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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 did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?
(a) Political powerlessness.
(b) History.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Racial strife.

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

3. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?
(a) They shifted to a policy of inclusive covenants.
(b) They started to remedy segregated neighborhoods.
(c) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.
(d) They set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.

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

5. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) World War I.
(b) 1960s.
(c) World War II.
(d) New Deal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say was the first consequence of black families moving into whites neighborhoods through blockbusting?

2. What is de facto segregation?

3. Where does Rothstein say Leroy Mereday was born?

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

5. According to Rothstein, what purposes did local governments seize black neighborhoods for?

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