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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. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1988.

2. What did homeowners claim made deeds exempt from laws governing discrimination?
(a) They were legal documents.
(b) They were economic agreements.
(c) They were private.
(d) They were not backed by federal statute.

3. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) Return to places of origin.
(b) Protection for the powerless.
(c) A fair society.
(d) Reparations.

4. When did the PWA end?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1957.

5. When was the first Great Migration that brought black families north?
(a) During World War II.
(b) During World War I.
(c) In the 1890s.
(d) In the 1920s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?

2. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?

3. What work does Rothstein say black families were largely forced to take after Reconstruction?

4. How long did Bill Myers and his family stay in Levittown after the move-in riot?

5. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?

(see the answer key)

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