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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. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Harold Hoffman
(d) Because private developers refused to sell to them.

2. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) An integrated neighborhood.
(b) A shopping district.
(c) An airport.
(d) A white slum.

3. What does Rothstein say made black families a risk in the mortgage industry?
(a) Their susceptibility to violence at the hands of whites.
(b) Their vulnerability to exploitative rents.
(c) Their race alone.
(d) Their likelihood of being overcharged for services and property.

4. What does Rothstein say African Americans got after the Civil War?
(a) Reparations.
(b) Protection.
(c) 40 acres and a mule.
(d) Nothing.

5. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?
(a) In construction.
(b) In World War I.
(c) In World War II.
(d) In the stock market.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

2. How does Rothstein say the IRS abetted segregation?

3. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?

4. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?

5. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?

(see the answer key)

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