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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. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?
(a) By the time the state won its case, the wait list was already full.
(b) Whites there threatened violence against black families.
(c) Black families refused to move there.
(d) The rents were too high for African-American families to afford.

2. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
(a) Houses for whites, slums for blacks.
(b) Segregated.
(c) Separate-but-equal.
(d) Integrated.

3. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?
(a) No evidence of any effect on price.
(b) There was evidence of prices going down slightly.
(c) There was evidence of prices going up drastically.
(d) There was evidence of prices going up slightly.

4. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?
(a) He argued for integrated housing.
(b) He argued in favor of segregated housing in 1918.
(c) He argued for separate but equal housing.
(d) He argued for a market-based approach to integrate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What development gave the Mereday family business?

2. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?

3. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?

4. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?

5. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

(see the answer key)

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