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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 order does Rothstein say the police had been given in relation to the riot at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) To protect the family’s property.
(b) To ban the use of alcohol.
(c) Not to interfere.
(d) To keep the protest peaceful.

2. How big was the mob that threw rocks at Wilbur Gary’s house?
(a) 100.
(b) 300.
(c) 50.
(d) 2,000.

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

4. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Crime.
(c) Crowded homes.
(d) Poor educational opportunities.

5. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Built equity.
(b) Concentrated them in slums.
(c) Subjected them to mass incarceration.
(d) Denied them wages.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein characterize the FHA’s theory about value in terms African Americans bringing down housing prices?

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

3. In which neighborhood does Rothstein say whites “declared war” on African-American residents, and drove them out of the neighborhood?

4. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?

5. Who protected Wilbur Gary’s house and family from the white mob?

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