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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. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

2. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?
(a) Straw man sales.
(b) Deferred sales.
(c) Cash sales.
(d) Contract sales.

3. What does Rothstein say caused many black families to lose the homes they bought from blockbusters?
(a) Loss of jobs.
(b) Threats of violence.
(c) High payments.
(d) Lack of income.

4. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?
(a) Racism.
(b) Fear of contagion.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Fear of violence.

5. What was the main mechanism Rothstein says whites in power used to suppress black wages?
(a) Stealing their wages through sharecropping.
(b) Classifying their labor as exempt from wage regulation.
(c) Denying them access to skilled positions.
(d) Denying them access to union representation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?

2. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?

3. What is de facto segregation?

4. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?

5. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?

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