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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: White Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Warren Harding.
(c) Harland Bartholomew.
(d) Harold Ickes.

2. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Subjected them to mass incarceration.
(b) Denied them wages.
(c) Concentrated them in slums.
(d) Built equity.

3. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) White supremacists’ murders of black people.
(b) Riots in Ferguson.
(c) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.
(d) Los Angeles race riots.

4. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?
(a) Adverse influences.
(b) Incompatible ownership occupancy.
(c) Heterogeneous neighborhoods.
(d) Inharmonious neighborhoods.

5. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) Slums.
(b) Scattered throughout the exurbs.
(c) In the suburbs.
(d) In the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is de facto segregation?

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

3. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?

4. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?

5. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

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