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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 the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?
(a) They set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.
(b) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.
(c) They shifted to a policy of inclusive covenants.
(d) They started to remedy segregated neighborhoods.

2. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?
(a) International law.
(b) A moral obligation.
(c) Religious dictate.
(d) The Constitution.

3. Who does Rothstein say spread the word that Bill Myers, an African-American veteran, had moved into the Levittown in Pennsylvania?
(a) Local builders.
(b) Housewives.
(c) The postman.
(d) Kids.

4. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) Blacks gained representation in government.
(b) Blacks were kept out of government.
(c) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.
(d) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is reverse redlining?

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

3. What did homeowners claim made deeds exempt from laws governing discrimination?

4. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?

5. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?

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