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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 euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?
(a) Incompatible ownership occupancy.
(b) Adverse influences.
(c) Heterogeneous neighborhoods.
(d) Inharmonious neighborhoods.

2. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Construction.
(c) Shipbuilding.
(d) Hostelry.

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

4. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?
(a) The free market.
(b) Caveat emptor.
(c) Free will.
(d) Might makes right.

5. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?
(a) Presidential election.
(b) Demonstrable improvements in integration.
(c) Guerilla warfare.
(d) Expiration of a treaty period.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?

2. What does Rothstein say was used after the 1954 Brown decision to fix the problems created by segregated housing?

3. What is reverse redlining?

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 turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?

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