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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 real estate agents were not required to do?
(a) Follow laws about conflicts of interests.
(b) Report racial constitution of each neighborhood they sold a house in.
(c) Disclose exploitative rates to customers.
(d) Segregate neighborhoods by race.

2. What excuses does Rothstein say federal officials used to hide the racist consequences of housing policy?
(a) They were doing what they were elected to do.
(b) They were just making economic decisions.
(c) People do not like change.
(d) People were going to live with their own kind.

3. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?
(a) As a few renegade real estate agents deceiving the public.
(b) As a form of collusion with the FHA.
(c) As a federal government policy.
(d) As a form of de jure segregation.

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

5. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?
(a) Political powerlessness.
(b) History.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Racial strife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?

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

3. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?

4. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?

5. What is the most extreme measure blockbusters took to inspire racial fears and get whites to sell their homes?

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