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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. What does Rothstein say was the first consequence of black families moving into whites neighborhoods through blockbusting?
(a) Prices remained constant.
(b) Prices went down steeply.
(c) Prices went up.
(d) Prices went down slightly.

2. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Generalizations about the purity of races.
(b) Anecdotes from homeowners in Kentucky.
(c) There was no hard evidence.
(d) Years of property value data.

3. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?
(a) As a few renegade real estate agents deceiving the public.
(b) As a form of collusion with the FHA.
(c) As a federal government policy.
(d) As a form of de jure segregation.

4. 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) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
(c) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(d) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.

5. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(b) It fought it.
(c) It encouraged it.
(d) It helped hide it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?

2. When did the PWA end?

3. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

4. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?

5. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?

(see the answer key)

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