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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: White Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
(a) Houses for whites, slums for blacks.
(b) Segregated.
(c) Separate-but-equal.
(d) Integrated.

2. What is the most extreme measure blockbusters took to inspire racial fears and get whites to sell their homes?
(a) Set up burglaries.
(b) Hire black women to push baby carriages through a neighborhood.
(c) Advertise home for sale in black newspapers.
(d) Hire black men to canvas door-to-door, looking for houses for sale.

3. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Harold Hoffman

4. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) A white slum.
(b) An integrated neighborhood.
(c) An airport.
(d) A shopping district.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?

2. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

3. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?

4. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?

5. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

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