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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: White Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?
(a) Discriminating based on race or religion.
(b) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(c) Denying citizens due process.
(d) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.

2. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Single-family.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Multi-family.

3. When did the PWA end?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1982.

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

5. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?
(a) When the interest was paid off.
(b) When they started making payments.
(c) When they moved out.
(d) When it was completely paid off.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

3. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?

4. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

5. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

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