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

2. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Single-family.
(b) Agricultural.
(c) Multi-family.
(d) Industrial.

3. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) New Deal.
(b) World War I.
(c) World War II.
(d) 1960s.

4. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?
(a) Adverse influences.
(b) Incompatible ownership occupancy.
(c) Heterogeneous neighborhoods.
(d) Inharmonious neighborhoods.

5. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?
(a) As a form of collusion with the FHA.
(b) As a few renegade real estate agents deceiving the public.
(c) As a federal government policy.
(d) As a form of de jure segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?

2. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?

3. What development gave the Mereday family business?

4. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?

5. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?

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