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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 does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?
(a) Afford maintenance.
(b) Add additions to their homes.
(c) Buy second homes.
(d) Life off one wage-earner.

2. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They amortized them.
(b) They extended them to black families.
(c) They stopped amortizing them.
(d) They made them shorter.

3. What role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?
(a) Buying up homes before black families could buy.
(b) Raising funds for black families to move into integrated neighborhoods.
(c) Advocating racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Threatening violence against black families.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?

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

3. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?

5. What does Rothstein say organizations used tax-exempt status for?

(see the answer key)

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