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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. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?
(a) Contract sales.
(b) Deferred sales.
(c) Cash sales.
(d) Straw man sales.

2. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) 1930s.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) 1960s.

3. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Stories where integration drew people willing to pay to live in an integrated neighborhood.
(b) Data from neighborhoods where blacks were drawn in to pay higher prices.
(c) Tax receipts from neighborhoods where African Americans moved in.
(d) Sales data from integrated and segregated neighborhoods outside Newark NJ.

4. What is de jure segregation?
(a) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.
(b) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(c) Government policies keeping races apart.
(d) Geographical features keeping races apart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?

2. What does Rothstein say made black families a risk in the mortgage industry?

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

4. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?

5. What development gave the Mereday family business?

(see the answer key)

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