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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: “Own Your Own Home”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) White supremacists’ murders of black people.
(b) Riots in Ferguson.
(c) Los Angeles race riots.
(d) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.

2. 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?
(a) Built integrated projects.
(b) Built more segregated projects in defiance of the Supreme Court.
(c) Stopped building projects.
(d) Changed the names of their developments to provide a sheen of integration.

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

4. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(b) Because communities refused to admit them.
(c) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(d) Because they could not afford them.

5. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Selling homes to African Americans.
(b) Black business ownership.
(c) Employing African Americans.
(d) Intermarriage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?

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

4. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

5. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

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