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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. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?
(a) In World War II.
(b) In World War I.
(c) In construction.
(d) In the stock market.
2. How does Rothstein say the IRS abetted segregation?
(a) By penalizing black families for living in majority-white neighborhoods.
(b) By eliminating tax-exempt status for organizations that fought segregation.
(c) By auditing organizations that sought to build integrated housing.
(d) By preserving tax-exempt status of organizations that fostered segregation.
3. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(b) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(c) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(d) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
4. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They restored it.
(b) They exacerbated it.
(c) They remedied it.
(d) They realigned it along economic class lines.
5. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1944.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?
2. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?
3. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?
4. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
5. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
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