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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. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?
(a) Construction.
(b) Shipbuilding.
(c) Manufacturing.
(d) Hostelry.

2. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?
(a) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.
(b) Higher rents and threats from local police.
(c) Lower rents for squalid conditions.
(d) Higher rents for lower-quality properties.

3. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) Scattered throughout the exurbs.
(b) Slums.
(c) In the suburbs.
(d) In the country.

4. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because communities refused to admit them.
(b) Because they could not afford them.
(c) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(d) Because private developers refused to sell to them.

5. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1986.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

2. When did the PWA end?

3. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

4. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

5. What percentage of the mortgages in the U.S. does Rothstein say were the FHA and the Veterans Administration insuring by 1950?

(see the answer key)

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