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

2. How long did Bill Myers and his family stay in Levittown after the move-in riot?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 4 years.

3. 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) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.
(c) Higher rents and threats from local police.
(d) Lower rents for squalid conditions.

4. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?
(a) Warren Harding.
(b) Harold Ickes.
(c) Harland Bartholomew.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

5. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?
(a) Fear of violence.
(b) Racism.
(c) Fear of contagion.
(d) Guilt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?

3. What does Rothstein say police knew of, and ignored, in the rioters at Bill Myers’ house?

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

5. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?

(see the answer key)

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