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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 concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?
(a) Might makes right.
(b) The free market.
(c) Free will.
(d) Caveat emptor.

2. What does Rothstein call the practice of demolishing black neighborhoods in order to make way for white families?
(a) Redistribution of real estate.
(b) Slum clearance.
(c) Rezoning.
(d) Eminent domain.

3. What is redlining?
(a) Increasing the amount a family has to put down to get a mortgage.
(b) Placing neighborhoods next to industrial neighborhoods.
(c) Refusing to offer mortgages to black families in certain areas.
(d) Charging higher interest on a managing.

4. What was the main mechanism Rothstein says whites in power used to suppress black wages?
(a) Denying them access to skilled positions.
(b) Stealing their wages through sharecropping.
(c) Classifying their labor as exempt from wage regulation.
(d) Denying them access to union representation.

5. What does Rothstein say was a popular tool for whites who wanted to restrict integrated neighborhoods?
(a) Denying basic services.
(b) Rezoning them as industrial.
(c) Threatening developers’ lives.
(d) Packing the courts to get favorable decisions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the condition that led the FHA to finally back the UAW’s development in Milpitas?

2. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?

3. What else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?

4. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?

5. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?

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