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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 does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?
(a) Afford maintenance.
(b) Buy second homes.
(c) Life off one wage-earner.
(d) Add additions to their homes.

2. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They restored it.
(b) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(c) They remedied it.
(d) They exacerbated it.

3. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?
(a) There was evidence of prices going down slightly.
(b) There was evidence of prices going up drastically.
(c) No evidence of any effect on price.
(d) There was evidence of prices going up slightly.

4. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Apartheid.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Reign of Terror.
(d) Racially restrictive covenants.

5. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?
(a) Glut.
(b) Redistribution, as families moved west.
(c) Shortage.
(d) Collapse.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Rothstein say the Department of Housing and Urban Development do when the Supreme Court delivered a 1971 decision that said they had to construct projects in predominantly-white neighborhoods?

3. What does Rothstein say the FHA did to segregation in housing?

4. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

5. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?

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