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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. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?
(a) He argued for separate but equal housing.
(b) He argued for integrated housing.
(c) He argued in favor of segregated housing in 1918.
(d) He argued for a market-based approach to integrate.

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Camden, NJ.
(d) Richmond, CA.

3. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?
(a) Whites there threatened violence against black families.
(b) By the time the state won its case, the wait list was already full.
(c) The rents were too high for African-American families to afford.
(d) Black families refused to move there.

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

5. How does Rothstein characterize the roles that were open to African-American workers?
(a) Skilled.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Menial.
(d) Management.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?

2. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?

3. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?

4. Whose administration turned racially restrictive covenants into a legal requirement for mortgages?

5. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?

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