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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. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1917.
(d) 2001.

2. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?
(a) For offering a private mortgage to a black family.
(b) For selling his house to a black family.
(c) For voting against his neighborhoods racially restrictive covenants.
(d) For lying to appraisers.

3. What does Rothstein say the FHA’s appraisal standards included?
(a) A reparations requirement.
(b) An integration requirement.
(c) A fair share requirement.
(d) A whites-only requirements.

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

5. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) New York.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way were African Americans still bought and sold even after the end of slavery?

2. What does Rothstein say makes the racially restrictive covenants a state-sponsored strategy for de jure segregation?

3. How big was the mob that threw rocks at Wilbur Gary’s house?

4. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?

5. Where does Rothstein say blockbusting had its roots?

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