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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: State-Sanctioned Violence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?
(a) Higher rents for lower-quality properties.
(b) Lower rents for squalid conditions.
(c) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.
(d) Higher rents and threats from local police.

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

3. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Selling homes to African Americans.
(b) Intermarriage.
(c) Employing African Americans.
(d) Black business ownership.

4. What does Rothstein say police knew of, and ignored, in the rioters at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) Racial animus.
(b) Ties to the local police chief.
(c) White supremacist ties.
(d) Plans to lynch Myers.

5. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?
(a) 25%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 85%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

2. What flag did the mob fly outside of Bill Myers’ house, while the cops stood by doing nothing?

3. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?

4. Where did Wilbur Gary buy a home that made him the target of racist violence?

5. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?

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