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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Suppressed Incomes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?
(a) It was generally poorer.
(b) It was more likely to be temporary.
(c) It was generally better.
(d) It was more likely to be locally sourced.

2. What does Rothstein say caused many black families to lose the homes they bought from blockbusters?
(a) Threats of violence.
(b) High payments.
(c) Lack of income.
(d) Loss of jobs.

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

4. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?
(a) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.
(b) Higher rents for lower-quality properties.
(c) Higher rents and threats from local police.
(d) Lower rents for squalid conditions.

5. How long did Bill Myers and his family stay in Levittown after the move-in riot?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 4 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the condition that led the FHA to finally back the UAW’s development in Milpitas?

2. What work does Rothstein say black families were largely forced to take after Reconstruction?

3. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold racially restrictive covenants as well as exclusionary zoning ordinances?

4. Why does Rothstein say the Mereday family did not apply for mortgages?

5. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?

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