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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Racially restrictive covenants.
(b) Reign of Terror.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) Jim Crow.

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Richmond, VA.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Detroit.

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

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

5. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?
(a) Political powerlessness.
(b) History.
(c) Racial strife.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?

2. What development gave the Mereday family business?

3. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?

4. What does Rothstein say the FHA did to segregation in housing?

5. What does Rothstein say was the first consequence of black families moving into whites neighborhoods through blockbusting?

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