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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. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(b) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(c) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
(d) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.

2. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?
(a) Rothstein says he wanted to expose the details that reveal the inaccuracies at the heart of federal housing policy.
(b) Rothstein says that he wants to make it clear that segregation was a deliberate policy of the U.S. government.
(c) Rothstein wanted to demonstrate how our current problems are rooted in historical trends.
(d) Rothstein says he wants to show that segregation involved good people on both sides of the issue.

3. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?
(a) He was imprisoned.
(b) He was blacklisted by the FHA.
(c) He was driven out of the state.
(d) He was exonerated.

4. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Limits on black contractors.
(b) Excluding black workers from skills positions.
(c) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(d) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.

5. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They stopped amortizing them.
(b) They amortized them.
(c) They made them shorter.
(d) They extended them to black families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?

2. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?

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

4. What kind of language did federal documents use to disguise their racial intent?

5. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?

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