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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. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(b) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(c) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
(d) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.

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

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 set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.
(d) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.

4. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?
(a) Sued towns that raised requirements for integrated developments.
(b) Forced the police to suppress move-in riots when black families moved into integrated neighborhoods.
(c) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.
(d) Forced local governments to accept integrated developments.

5. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?
(a) 70%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 65%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

2. How does Rothstein characterize the federal, state and local government officials’ racial intent in suppressing African-American wages?

3. What was Houston’s “Race Restriction Areas” map used for?

4. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?

5. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?

(see the answer key)

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