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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. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They amortized them.
(b) They extended them to black families.
(c) They stopped amortizing them.
(d) They made them shorter.

2. What is a problem Rothstein says that African Americans suffer from as a result of poor housing conditions?
(a) Gout.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Anemia.
(d) Blindness.

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

4. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?
(a) Free will.
(b) The free market.
(c) Caveat emptor.
(d) Might makes right.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?

2. What is de facto segregation?

3. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?

4. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?

5. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?

(see the answer key)

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