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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 kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Single-family.
(c) Agricultural.
(d) Multi-family.

2. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
(a) Integrated.
(b) Houses for whites, slums for blacks.
(c) Segregated.
(d) Separate-but-equal.

3. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It helped hide it.
(b) It fought it.
(c) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(d) It encouraged it.

4. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(b) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
(c) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(d) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.

5. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?
(a) Inharmonious neighborhoods.
(b) Adverse influences.
(c) Heterogeneous neighborhoods.
(d) Incompatible ownership occupancy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?

2. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?

3. 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?

4. What excuses does Rothstein say federal officials used to hide the racist consequences of housing policy?

5. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?

(see the answer key)

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