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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. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?
(a) Valuable land.
(b) Integrated communities.
(c) Profitable resources.
(d) Blight.

2. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Camden, NJ.

3. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?
(a) They refused to enforce them.
(b) They turned a blind eye to them.
(c) They prevented their police from enforcing them.
(d) They actively promoted them.

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

5. Where did the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) find financing for an integrated development?
(a) Federal government.
(b) Metropolitan Life.
(c) California government.
(d) Private backers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say made black families a risk in the mortgage industry?

2. When was the first Great Migration that brought black families north?

3. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?

4. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?

5. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?

(see the answer key)

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