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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 else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?
(a) What religion the residents would practice.
(b) Who could visit the house as guests.
(c) What kinds of business could be run out of the house.
(d) What color the house could be painted.

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

3. Who protected Wilbur Gary’s house and family from the white mob?
(a) State police
(b) Federal troops.
(c) NAACP.
(d) Local police.

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Fair share policies.
(b) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(c) Racial zoning ordinances.
(d) Racially restrictive covenants.

5. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Used the plan anyway.
(b) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(c) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.
(d) Revised it to make it more inclusive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?

2. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?

3. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?

4. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?

5. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

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