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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. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?
(a) Buchanan.
(b) Jones.
(c) Brown.
(d) Shelley.

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

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

4. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?
(a) They actively promoted them.
(b) They refused to enforce them.
(c) They prevented their police from enforcing them.
(d) They turned a blind eye to them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?

2. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?

3. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?

4. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?

5. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

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