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

2. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?
(a) 2nd.
(b) 19th.
(c) 5th,13th, 14th.
(d) 13th.

3. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?
(a) Higher rents for lower-quality properties.
(b) Higher rents and threats from local police.
(c) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.
(d) Lower rents for squalid conditions.

4. Where was David Bohannon a developer after World War II?
(a) California.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) New Jersey.

5. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?
(a) Lynching and other forms of terrorism.
(b) Public housing.
(c) Mass incarceration.
(d) Wage suppression and wage theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?

2. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?

3. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?

4. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?

5. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?

(see the answer key)

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