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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 FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?
(a) There was evidence of prices going up slightly.
(b) There was evidence of prices going up drastically.
(c) There was evidence of prices going down slightly.
(d) No evidence of any effect on price.

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

3. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Harland Bartholomew.
(c) Harold Ickes.
(d) Warren Harding.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?

2. In what way were African Americans still bought and sold even after the end of slavery?

3. What is redlining?

4. What makes Rothstein say that real estate agents engaged in blockbusting were engaging in de jure segregation?

5. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

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