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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Private Agreements, Government Enforcement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Harold Hoffman
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) Because private developers refused to sell to them.

2. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

3. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Camden, NJ.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Richmond, CA.

4. How does Rothstein say UCLA students got black students into their racially exclusive neighborhood?
(a) By reclassifying them as white.
(b) By calling them domestic servants.
(c) By hiding them.
(d) By disguising them.

5. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?
(a) In World War I.
(b) In construction.
(c) In World War II.
(d) In the stock market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?

2. What ethnic group was included in prohibitions of sales in Brookline, MA, alongside African Americans?

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

4. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?

5. What does Rothstein say the FHA’s appraisal standards included?

(see the answer key)

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