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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. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?
(a) 0.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) World War II.
(b) New Deal.
(c) World War I.
(d) 1960s.

3. 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(b) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.
(c) Sued towns that raised requirements for integrated developments.
(d) Forced the police to suppress move-in riots when black families moved into integrated neighborhoods.

4. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

5. 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) People were going to live with their own kind.
(c) People do not like change.
(d) They were just making economic decisions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?

3. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

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

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

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