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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Private Agreements, Government Enforcement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?
(a) Discriminating based on race or religion.
(b) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(c) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(d) Denying citizens due process.

2. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?
(a) Mass incarceration.
(b) Lynching and other forms of terrorism.
(c) Wage suppression and wage theft.
(d) Public housing.

3. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?
(a) 2007.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1968.

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

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 stripped out any enforcement mechanisms.
(c) It delayed implementation.
(d) It gave towns 25 years to comply.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the mortgages in the U.S. does Rothstein say were the FHA and the Veterans Administration insuring by 1950?

2. 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?

3. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?

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

5. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?

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