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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. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) New York.

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Richmond, CA.
(b) Camden, NJ.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Chicago.

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

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Racial zoning ordinances.
(b) Fair share policies.
(c) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(d) Racially restrictive covenants.

5. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Multi-family.
(b) Agricultural.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Single-family.

Short Answer Questions

1. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?

2. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?

3. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?

4. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

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

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