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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 say UCLA students got black students into their racially exclusive neighborhood?
(a) By reclassifying them as white.
(b) By calling them domestic servants.
(c) By disguising them.
(d) By hiding them.

2. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(b) It encouraged it.
(c) It fought it.
(d) It helped hide it.

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

4. What did the development try to do to get Gary out of the development?
(a) Charge him extra for his water and sewer services.
(b) Make him pay for his police protection.
(c) Turn off his electricity.
(d) Buy his house for more than he paid for it.

5. What does Rothstein say makes the racially restrictive covenants a state-sponsored strategy for de jure segregation?
(a) The police enforced them.
(b) The HOLC required them.
(c) The FHA required them.
(d) The courts enforced them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?

2. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?

3. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?

4. What is de jure segregation?

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

(see the answer key)

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