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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. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?
(a) Higher rents for lower-quality properties.
(b) Lower rents for squalid conditions.
(c) Higher rents and threats from local police.
(d) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.

2. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Denied them wages.
(b) Subjected them to mass incarceration.
(c) Built equity.
(d) Concentrated them in slums.

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

4. In what way were African Americans still bought and sold even after the end of slavery?
(a) As servants.
(b) As communities.
(c) As prisoners.
(d) As serfs.

5. According to Rothstein, what purposes did local governments seize black neighborhoods for?
(a) Parks and highways.
(b) Airports and subway systems.
(c) Private development.
(d) Industrial development.

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. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?

3. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?

4. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?

5. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?

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