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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. What does Rothstein say the FHA’s appraisal standards included?
(a) A fair share requirement.
(b) A whites-only requirements.
(c) An integration requirement.
(d) A reparations requirement.

2. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.
(b) Blacks gained representation in government.
(c) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(d) Blacks were kept out of government.

3. What does Rothstein say real estate agents were not required to do?
(a) Disclose exploitative rates to customers.
(b) Segregate neighborhoods by race.
(c) Report racial constitution of each neighborhood they sold a house in.
(d) Follow laws about conflicts of interests.

4. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(b) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(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.

5. How does Rothstein characterize the federal, state and local government officials’ racial intent in suppressing African-American wages?
(a) Coded.
(b) Obfuscated.
(c) Undisguised.
(d) Unintentional.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

2. Where does Rothstein say Leroy Mereday was born?

3. How many African Americans moved north in the Second Great Migration?

4. What was the case that resulted in the decision that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

5. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?

(see the answer key)

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