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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 does Rothstein say the FHA did to segregation in housing?
(a) Stripped out any enforcement to support integration.
(b) Allowed local governments to set their own standards.
(c) Ended it as federal policy.
(d) Made it federal policy.

2. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?
(a) It was generally better.
(b) It was more likely to be temporary.
(c) It was generally poorer.
(d) It was more likely to be locally sourced.

3. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?
(a) Vandalizing model homes in integrated developments.
(b) Murdering unarmed black people to keep them out of the city.
(c) Harassing blacks with petty arrests.
(d) Allowing racist mobs to commit crimes with impunity.

4. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?
(a) Might makes right.
(b) Caveat emptor.
(c) Free will.
(d) The free market.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?

3. What development gave the Mereday family business?

4. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?

5. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?

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