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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. What does Rothstein say real estate agents were not required to do?
(a) Disclose exploitative rates to customers.
(b) Segregate neighborhoods by race.
(c) Follow laws about conflicts of interests.
(d) Report racial constitution of each neighborhood they sold a house in.

2. Whose administration turned racially restrictive covenants into a legal requirement for mortgages?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Warren Harding.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

3. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(b) Blacks gained representation in government.
(c) Blacks were kept out of government.
(d) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.

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

5. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?
(a) Discriminating based on race or religion.
(b) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(c) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(d) Denying citizens due process.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?

2. When did the PWA end?

3. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?

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

5. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?

(see the answer key)

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