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

2. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They made them shorter.
(b) They stopped amortizing them.
(c) They extended them to black families.
(d) They amortized them.

3. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?
(a) They advocated for a free market approach.
(b) They advocated for integrated housing.
(c) They did not describe policies for integration.
(d) They advocated subsides for African-American families.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?

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

3. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

4. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

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

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