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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 does Rothstein characterize the FHA’s theory about value in terms African Americans bringing down housing prices?
(a) A misrepresentation.
(b) Factually accurate.
(c) Self-fulfilling.
(d) Deluded.

2. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?
(a) He argued for integrated housing.
(b) He argued for separate but equal housing.
(c) He argued for a market-based approach to integrate.
(d) He argued in favor of segregated housing in 1918.

3. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.
(b) Push for integration in neighborhoods.
(c) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.
(d) Establish racial neighborhood zones.

4. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?
(a) As a form of collusion with the FHA.
(b) As a few renegade real estate agents deceiving the public.
(c) As a form of de jure segregation.
(d) As a federal government policy.

5. 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 they moved out.
(c) When they started making payments.
(d) When it was completely paid off.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?

3. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?

4. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?

5. What does Rothstein say caused many black families to lose the homes they bought from blockbusters?

(see the answer key)

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