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

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

3. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Crowded homes.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Crime.
(d) Poor educational opportunities.

4. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.
(b) Push for integration in neighborhoods.
(c) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.
(d) Establish racial neighborhood zones.

5. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because they could not afford them.
(b) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(c) Because communities refused to admit them.
(d) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

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. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?

4. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

5. Whose administration turned racially restrictive covenants into a legal requirement for mortgages?

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