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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: White Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?
(a) In World War I.
(b) In the stock market.
(c) In World War II.
(d) In construction.

2. What kind of language did federal documents use to disguise their racial intent?
(a) Malapropisms.
(b) Similes.
(c) Euphemisms.
(d) Lies.

3. What does Rothstein say made black families a risk in the mortgage industry?
(a) Their susceptibility to violence at the hands of whites.
(b) Their race alone.
(c) Their likelihood of being overcharged for services and property.
(d) Their vulnerability to exploitative rents.

4. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Camden, NJ.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Richmond, CA.

5. How does Rothstein characterize the justifications planning committees used for segregation and discrimination when they knew the Constitutional requirement?
(a) Thinly-disguised lies.
(b) Thin veneer of legalese.
(c) Smoke and mirrors.
(d) Disingenuous misdirection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?

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

3. What is de jure segregation?

4. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

5. What development gave the Mereday family business?

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