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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 role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?
(a) Threatening violence against black families.
(b) Buying up homes before black families could buy.
(c) Advocating racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Raising funds for black families to move into integrated neighborhoods.

2. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?
(a) Refugees from sharecropping.
(b) Indigent people.
(c) Lower- and middle-class families.
(d) The working poor.

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

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

5. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.
(b) Push for integration in neighborhoods.
(c) Establish racial neighborhood zones.
(d) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

3. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?

4. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?

5. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

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