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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. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1917.

2. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?
(a) The working poor.
(b) Indigent people.
(c) Lower- and middle-class families.
(d) Refugees from sharecropping.

3. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) In the country.
(b) In the suburbs.
(c) Scattered throughout the exurbs.
(d) Slums.

4. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?
(a) They shifted to a policy of inclusive covenants.
(b) They set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.
(c) They started to remedy segregated neighborhoods.
(d) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

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

3. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?

4. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?

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

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