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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 demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) An integrated neighborhood.
(b) An airport.
(c) A white slum.
(d) A shopping district.

2. What does Rothstein say made black families a risk in the mortgage industry?
(a) Their vulnerability to exploitative rents.
(b) Their susceptibility to violence at the hands of whites.
(c) Their likelihood of being overcharged for services and property.
(d) Their race alone.

3. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold racially restrictive covenants as well as exclusionary zoning ordinances?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1917.

4. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1904.

5. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Anecdotes from homeowners in Kentucky.
(b) Generalizations about the purity of races.
(c) Years of property value data.
(d) There was no hard evidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?

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

3. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?

4. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?

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

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