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

2. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.
(b) Establish racial neighborhood zones.
(c) Push for integration in neighborhoods.
(d) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.

3. What is de facto segregation?
(a) Government policies keeping races apart.
(b) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(c) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(d) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.

4. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?
(a) Exurbs.
(b) Inner cities.
(c) Country.
(d) Suburbs.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?

3. What was the case that resulted in the decision that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

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

5. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?

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