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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 role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?
(a) Allowing racist mobs to commit crimes with impunity.
(b) Vandalizing model homes in integrated developments.
(c) Harassing blacks with petty arrests.
(d) Murdering unarmed black people to keep them out of the city.

2. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?
(a) He was exonerated.
(b) He was driven out of the state.
(c) He was blacklisted by the FHA.
(d) He was imprisoned.

3. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They remedied it.
(b) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(c) They exacerbated it.
(d) They restored it.

4. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(c) Harold Hoffman
(d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

5. What does Rothstein say makes the racially restrictive covenants a state-sponsored strategy for de jure segregation?
(a) The police enforced them.
(b) The HOLC required them.
(c) The courts enforced them.
(d) The FHA required them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

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

3. What does Rothstein say the FHA’s appraisal standards included?

4. Why did it not matter to black families that the courts generally saw through the racial motivations of developers who demolished black or integrated neighborhoods?

5. What ethnic group was included in prohibitions of sales in Brookline, MA, alongside African Americans?

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