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

2. What did the development try to do to get Gary out of the development?
(a) Make him pay for his police protection.
(b) Charge him extra for his water and sewer services.
(c) Turn off his electricity.
(d) Buy his house for more than he paid for it.

3. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?
(a) Integrated communities.
(b) Profitable resources.
(c) Valuable land.
(d) Blight.

4. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?
(a) Inner cities.
(b) Exurbs.
(c) Country.
(d) Suburbs.

5. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?
(a) Life off one wage-earner.
(b) Buy second homes.
(c) Add additions to their homes.
(d) Afford maintenance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

2. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?

3. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?

4. Why did Bob Jones University lose its tax-exempt status in 1976?

5. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

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