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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. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1912.

2. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Excluding black workers from skills positions.
(b) Limits on black contractors.
(c) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(d) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.

3. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They exacerbated it.
(b) They remedied it.
(c) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(d) They restored it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?

2. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?

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

4. Why does Rothstein say the Mereday family did not apply for mortgages?

5. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?

(see the answer key)

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