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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 did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Richmond, VA.

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

3. 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 encouraged it.
(d) It helped hide it.

4. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold racially restrictive covenants as well as exclusionary zoning ordinances?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1887.

5. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?
(a) In the stock market.
(b) In World War II.
(c) In construction.
(d) In World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the mortgages in the U.S. does Rothstein say were the FHA and the Veterans Administration insuring by 1950?

2. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

3. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?

4. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

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

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