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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Detroit.

2. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?
(a) Preserving communities.
(b) Relocating communities.
(c) Segregating communities.
(d) Integrating communities.

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

4. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) In the suburbs.
(b) In the country.
(c) Slums.
(d) Scattered throughout the exurbs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?

2. What does Rothstein say made black families a risk in the mortgage industry?

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

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

5. How does Rothstein characterize the FHA’s theory about value in terms African Americans bringing down housing prices?

(see the answer key)

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