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

2. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?
(a) Incompatible ownership occupancy.
(b) Heterogeneous neighborhoods.
(c) Inharmonious neighborhoods.
(d) Adverse influences.

3. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?
(a) They advocated subsides for African-American families.
(b) They advocated for integrated housing.
(c) They did not describe policies for integration.
(d) They advocated for a free market approach.

4. How were black families kept in the employment they were forced to take after reconstruction?
(a) They were misled.
(b) They were threatened with murder.
(c) They were bound in chains of debt.
(d) They were deceived.

5. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?
(a) 0.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the second Great Migration that brought black families north?

2. What does Rothstein say created the emotional time in which the Fair Housing Act was passed?

3. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?

4. When did the PWA end?

5. What development gave the Mereday family business?

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