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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: “Own Your Own Home”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?
(a) It was generally better.
(b) It was generally poorer.
(c) It was more likely to be locally sourced.
(d) It was more likely to be temporary.

2. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Single-family.
(b) Multi-family.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Agricultural.

3. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1968.

4. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(b) It encouraged it.
(c) It fought it.
(d) It helped hide it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?

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

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

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

5. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?

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