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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. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) New Deal.
(d) 1960s.

2. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1868.

3. How long does Rothstein say the riot went on at Wilbur Gary’s house?
(a) Three days.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) A month.

4. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?
(a) Preserving communities.
(b) Relocating communities.
(c) Integrating communities.
(d) Segregating communities.

5. What ethnic group was included in prohibitions of sales in Brookline, MA, alongside African Americans?
(a) Germans.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Greek.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the second Great Migration that brought black families north?

2. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?

3. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

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 did local officials do to prevent the AFSC from building an integrated development?

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