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

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

3. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?
(a) They shifted to a policy of inclusive covenants.
(b) They set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.
(c) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.
(d) They started to remedy segregated neighborhoods.

4. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Sales data from integrated and segregated neighborhoods outside Newark NJ.
(b) Tax receipts from neighborhoods where African Americans moved in.
(c) Stories where integration drew people willing to pay to live in an integrated neighborhood.
(d) Data from neighborhoods where blacks were drawn in to pay higher prices.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?

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

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

4. How long does Rothstein say the riot went on at Wilbur Gary’s house?

5. Where does Rothstein say blockbusting had its roots?

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