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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: “Own Your Own Home”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Detroit.
(d) New York.

3. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?
(a) He was driven out of the state.
(b) He was blacklisted by the FHA.
(c) He was exonerated.
(d) He was imprisoned.

4. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(b) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
(c) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(d) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the PWA end?

3. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?

4. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

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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