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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 kind of language did federal documents use to disguise their racial intent?
(a) Lies.
(b) Euphemisms.
(c) Malapropisms.
(d) Similes.

2. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Revised it to make it more inclusive.
(b) Used the plan anyway.
(c) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(d) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.

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

4. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?
(a) Collapse.
(b) Glut.
(c) Redistribution, as families moved west.
(d) Shortage.

5. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?
(a) It refused to implement the change.
(b) It delayed implementation.
(c) It gave towns 25 years to comply.
(d) It stripped out any enforcement mechanisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?

2. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?

3. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?

4. What else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?

5. What is the most extreme measure blockbusters took to inspire racial fears and get whites to sell their homes?

(see the answer key)

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