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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Private Agreements, Government Enforcement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Single-family.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Multi-family.
(d) Agricultural.

3. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) White supremacists’ murders of black people.
(b) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.
(c) Riots in Ferguson.
(d) Los Angeles race riots.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?

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

3. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?

4. What ethnic group was included in prohibitions of sales in Brookline, MA, alongside African Americans?

5. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?

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