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

2. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?
(a) Construction.
(b) Shipbuilding.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Hostelry.

3. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They amortized them.
(b) They extended them to black families.
(c) They stopped amortizing them.
(d) They made them shorter.

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

5. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?
(a) Lower rents for squalid conditions.
(b) Higher rents and threats from local police.
(c) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.
(d) Higher rents for lower-quality properties.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

2. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?

3. What does Rothstein say organizations used tax-exempt status for?

4. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?

5. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?

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