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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. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?
(a) 2007.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1968.

2. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They made them shorter.
(b) They extended them to black families.
(c) They amortized them.
(d) They stopped amortizing them.

3. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Richmond, VA.
(d) Detroit.

4. What did homeowners claim made deeds exempt from laws governing discrimination?
(a) They were legal documents.
(b) They were private.
(c) They were economic agreements.
(d) They were not backed by federal statute.

5. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(b) Blacks were kept out of government.
(c) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.
(d) Blacks gained representation in government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

2. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?

3. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?

4. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

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

(see the answer key)

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