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

2. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Racially restrictive covenants.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Reign of Terror.

3. 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) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(c) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(d) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.

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

5. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?
(a) For offering a private mortgage to a black family.
(b) For lying to appraisers.
(c) For voting against his neighborhoods racially restrictive covenants.
(d) For selling his house to a black family.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?

2. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

3. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?

4. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?

5. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

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