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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. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?
(a) Indigent people.
(b) Lower- and middle-class families.
(c) Refugees from sharecropping.
(d) The working poor.

2. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Employing African Americans.
(b) Intermarriage.
(c) Selling homes to African Americans.
(d) Black business ownership.

3. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Poor educational opportunities.
(b) Crowded homes.
(c) Crime.
(d) Drugs.

4. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1917.

5. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Racism.
(c) Fear of contagion.
(d) Fear of violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?

2. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

3. How were black families kept in the employment they were forced to take after reconstruction?

4. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?

5. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?

(see the answer key)

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