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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Local Tactics.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Richmond, CA.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Camden, NJ.

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

4. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?
(a) Profitable resources.
(b) Valuable land.
(c) Blight.
(d) Integrated communities.

5. Where does Rothstein say blockbusting had its roots?
(a) Federal housing policy.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Private decisions.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say was used after the 1954 Brown decision to fix the problems created by segregated housing?

2. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?

3. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

4. What was the condition that led the FHA to finally back the UAW’s development in Milpitas?

5. According to Rothstein, what purposes did local governments seize black neighborhoods for?

(see the answer key)

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