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

2. Whose administration turned racially restrictive covenants into a legal requirement for mortgages?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) Warren Harding.

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

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(b) Racially restrictive covenants.
(c) Racial zoning ordinances.
(d) Fair share policies.

5. What kind of language did federal documents use to disguise their racial intent?
(a) Euphemisms.
(b) Lies.
(c) Similes.
(d) Malapropisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?

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

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

4. What percentage of the mortgages in the U.S. does Rothstein say were the FHA and the Veterans Administration insuring by 1950?

5. When did the PWA end?

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