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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. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?
(a) For offering a private mortgage to a black family.
(b) For voting against his neighborhoods racially restrictive covenants.
(c) For lying to appraisers.
(d) For selling his house to a black family.

2. How does Rothstein say the IRS abetted segregation?
(a) By eliminating tax-exempt status for organizations that fought segregation.
(b) By auditing organizations that sought to build integrated housing.
(c) By preserving tax-exempt status of organizations that fostered segregation.
(d) By penalizing black families for living in majority-white neighborhoods.

3. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?
(a) Housing was only accountable to the market.
(b) Housing was a human right.
(c) Housing was not related to slavery.
(d) Housing was fully covered by anti-discrimination laws.

4. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?
(a) They have stopped offering subprime loans to black families.
(b) They have started to offer subprime loans to other ethnic groups, to trap them in poverty as well.
(c) They are again offering subprime loans to black families.
(d) They have moved to making subprime car loans to black families, instead of home loans.

5. What did homeowners claim made deeds exempt from laws governing discrimination?
(a) They were not backed by federal statute.
(b) They were private.
(c) They were legal documents.
(d) They were economic agreements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?

2. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?

3. What development gave the Mereday family business?

4. What role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?

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

(see the answer key)

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