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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Considering Fixes, and Epilogue, pages 195-218.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?
(a) Suburbs.
(b) Exurbs.
(c) Country.
(d) Inner cities.

2. Whose administration turned racially restrictive covenants into a legal requirement for mortgages?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Warren Harding.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

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

4. Why does Rothstein say the Mereday family did not apply for mortgages?
(a) They could not afford to buy homes.
(b) They knew they would be denied.
(c) They refused to pay inflated rates.
(d) They could not afford the bribes they would have to pay.

5. What did homeowners claim made deeds exempt from laws governing discrimination?
(a) They were not backed by federal statute.
(b) They were economic agreements.
(c) They were private.
(d) They were legal documents.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein suggest reforming the Section 8 program?

2. When did the U.S. Supreme Court find that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

3. When did the U.S. start building public housing?

4. What does Rothstein say whites suffer from as a result of systemic discrimination?

5. What else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?

(see the answer key)

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