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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Considering Fixes, and Epilogue, pages 195-218.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?
(a) They have moved to making subprime car loans to black families, instead of home loans.
(b) They are again offering subprime loans to black families.
(c) They have stopped offering subprime loans to black families.
(d) They have started to offer subprime loans to other ethnic groups, to trap them in poverty as well.

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

3. Where did the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) find financing for an integrated development?
(a) Metropolitan Life.
(b) California government.
(c) Private backers.
(d) Federal government.

4. How does Rothstein characterize the FHA’s theory about value in terms African Americans bringing down housing prices?
(a) Self-fulfilling.
(b) A misrepresentation.
(c) Deluded.
(d) Factually accurate.

5. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the U.S. Supreme Court find that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

3. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

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

5. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

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