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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) Concentrated them in slums.
(c) Built equity.
(d) Denied them wages.

2. How does Rothstein say UCLA students got black students into their racially exclusive neighborhood?
(a) By disguising them.
(b) By reclassifying them as white.
(c) By hiding them.
(d) By calling them domestic servants.

3. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?
(a) Leveraged.
(b) Usurious.
(c) Inflated.
(d) Discounted.

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

5. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rothstein say is one of the most common justifications for segregation?

3. What does Rothstein say was used after the 1954 Brown decision to fix the problems created by segregated housing?

4. What did homeowners claim made deeds exempt from laws governing discrimination?

5. What work does Rothstein say black families were largely forced to take after Reconstruction?

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