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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. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) Los Angeles race riots.
(b) Riots in Ferguson.
(c) White supremacists’ murders of black people.
(d) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.

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

3. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(b) It fought it.
(c) It helped hide it.
(d) It encouraged it.

4. What development gave the Mereday family business?
(a) Stuyvesant town.
(b) Levittown.
(c) De Porres in St. Louis.
(d) Rollingwood in Richmond, CA.

5. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?
(a) He was imprisoned.
(b) He was driven out of the state.
(c) He was blacklisted by the FHA.
(d) He was exonerated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?

3. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?

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

5. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

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