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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 did local officials do to prevent the AFSC from building an integrated development?
(a) Deny sewer lines to the development.
(b) Threaten the builder’s life.
(c) Raise the cost of the land.
(d) Add restrictions to house style and color.

2. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1960s.

3. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Apartheid.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Reign of Terror.

4. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it.
(b) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(c) It helped hide it.
(d) It encouraged it.

5. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?
(a) When the interest was paid off.
(b) When they moved out.
(c) When they started making payments.
(d) When it was completely paid off.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?

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

3. When did the U.S. start building public housing?

4. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?

5. What does Rothstein say was a popular tool for whites who wanted to restrict integrated neighborhoods?

(see the answer key)

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