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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) Reign of Terror.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Racially restrictive covenants.

2. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1868.

3. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?
(a) Leveraged.
(b) Inflated.
(c) Discounted.
(d) Usurious.

4. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Richmond, VA.
(d) Detroit.

5. Who protected Wilbur Gary’s house and family from the white mob?
(a) NAACP.
(b) Local police.
(c) Federal troops.
(d) State police

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How big was the mob that threw rocks at Wilbur Gary’s house?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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