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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They made them shorter.
(b) They amortized them.
(c) They stopped amortizing them.
(d) They extended them to black families.

2. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) An integrated neighborhood.
(b) An airport.
(c) A shopping district.
(d) A white slum.

3. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
(a) Separate-but-equal.
(b) Houses for whites, slums for blacks.
(c) Segregated.
(d) Integrated.

4. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?
(a) Shipbuilding.
(b) Hostelry.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Construction.

5. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?
(a) Forced local governments to accept integrated developments.
(b) Forced the police to suppress move-in riots when black families moved into integrated neighborhoods.
(c) Sued towns that raised requirements for integrated developments.
(d) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

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

3. What does Rothstein say was the first consequence of black families moving into whites neighborhoods through blockbusting?

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

5. When did the U.S. start building public housing?

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