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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. Whose administration turned racially restrictive covenants into a legal requirement for mortgages?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Warren Harding.

2. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?
(a) Harland Bartholomew.
(b) Warren Harding.
(c) Harold Ickes.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

3. What does Rothstein say was the first consequence of black families moving into whites neighborhoods through blockbusting?
(a) Prices remained constant.
(b) Prices went down steeply.
(c) Prices went down slightly.
(d) Prices went up.

4. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?
(a) International law.
(b) A moral obligation.
(c) Religious dictate.
(d) The Constitution.

5. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?
(a) Camden, NJ.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Kansas City.
(d) Detroit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

2. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?

3. What ethnic group was included in prohibitions of sales in Brookline, MA, alongside African Americans?

4. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?

5. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold racially restrictive covenants as well as exclusionary zoning ordinances?

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