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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: State-Sanctioned Violence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Anecdotes from homeowners in Kentucky.
(b) Generalizations about the purity of races.
(c) Years of property value data.
(d) There was no hard evidence.

2. Who was the leader of the riot at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) A well-known attorney.
(b) A powerful real estate developer.
(c) An elected official.
(d) A local police chief.

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

4. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1889.

5. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Crowded homes.
(b) Crime.
(c) Poor educational opportunities.
(d) Drugs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Wilbur Gary buy a home that made him the target of racist violence?

3. In which neighborhood does Rothstein say whites “declared war” on African-American residents, and drove them out of the neighborhood?

4. What did the development try to do to get Gary out of the development?

5. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?

(see the answer key)

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