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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Private Agreements, Government Enforcement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What development gave the Mereday family business?
(a) Levittown.
(b) De Porres in St. Louis.
(c) Stuyvesant town.
(d) Rollingwood in Richmond, CA.

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

3. Who does Rothstein say was the only one who had standing to enforce a racially restrictive covenant?
(a) The community.
(b) The homeowners’ association.
(c) The local government.
(d) The previous owner.

4. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Denied them wages.
(b) Built equity.
(c) Concentrated them in slums.
(d) Subjected them to mass incarceration.

5. What does Rothstein say makes the racially restrictive covenants a state-sponsored strategy for de jure segregation?
(a) The HOLC required them.
(b) The courts enforced them.
(c) The FHA required them.
(d) The police enforced them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?

3. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?

4. What is de jure segregation?

5. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?

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