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

2. What right did the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 give to unions?
(a) The right to boycott.
(b) The right to deny membership to African Americans.
(c) The right to strike.
(d) The right to get federal work training.

3. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?
(a) Exurbs.
(b) Inner cities.
(c) Country.
(d) Suburbs.

4. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) World War II.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) World War I.

5. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?
(a) Contract sales.
(b) Cash sales.
(c) Straw man sales.
(d) Deferred sales.

Short Answer 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?

2. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

3. What was the main mechanism Rothstein says whites in power used to suppress black wages?

4. What does Rothstein say the FHA did to segregation in housing?

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

(see the answer key)

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