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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 Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?
(a) Relocation.
(b) Blockbusting.
(c) Slum clearing.
(d) Race panicking.

2. What does Rothstein say organizations used tax-exempt status for?
(a) Creating wealth in their properties.
(b) Legally discriminating against African Americans.
(c) Getting favorable mortgages for their properties.
(d) Skirting laws about discrimination.

3. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1912.

4. What role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?
(a) Advocating racially restrictive covenants.
(b) Buying up homes before black families could buy.
(c) Threatening violence against black families.
(d) Raising funds for black families to move into integrated neighborhoods.

5. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?
(a) Buy second homes.
(b) Add additions to their homes.
(c) Afford maintenance.
(d) Life off one wage-earner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?

2. What does Rothstein say the Department of Housing and Urban Development do when the Supreme Court delivered a 1971 decision that said they had to construct projects in predominantly-white neighborhoods?

3. Who does Rothstein say spread the word that Bill Myers, an African-American veteran, had moved into the Levittown in Pennsylvania?

4. What does Rothstein say was a popular tool for whites who wanted to restrict integrated neighborhoods?

5. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?

(see the answer key)

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