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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Local Tactics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say organizations used tax-exempt status for?
(a) Creating wealth in their properties.
(b) Legally discriminating against African Americans.
(c) Getting favorable mortgages for their properties.
(d) Skirting laws about discrimination.

2. Where does Rothstein say Leroy Mereday was born?
(a) Camden, NJ.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Hamburg, SC.

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

4. When did the PWA end?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1937.

5. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Harold Hoffman
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Because private developers refused to sell to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

2. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?

3. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?

4. When did the U.S. Supreme Court find that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

5. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold racially restrictive covenants as well as exclusionary zoning ordinances?

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