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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Considering Fixes, and Epilogue, pages 195-218.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(b) Blacks gained representation in government.
(c) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.
(d) Blacks were kept out of government.

2. What work does Rothstein say black families were largely forced to take after Reconstruction?
(a) Industrial labor.
(b) Sharecropping.
(c) Shipbuilding.
(d) Soldiering.

3. When was the first Great Migration that brought black families north?
(a) In the 1890s.
(b) In the 1920s.
(c) During World War II.
(d) During World War I.

4. What flag did the mob fly outside of Bill Myers’ house, while the cops stood by doing nothing?
(a) The Soviet flag.
(b) The South African flag.
(c) The American flag.
(d) The Confederate flag.

5. What does Rothstein say the Department of Housing and Urban Development do when the Supreme Court delivered a 1971 decision that said they had to construct projects in predominantly-white neighborhoods?
(a) Changed the names of their developments to provide a sheen of integration.
(b) Built integrated projects.
(c) Built more segregated projects in defiance of the Supreme Court.
(d) Stopped building projects.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?

3. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?

4. Why did Bob Jones University lose its tax-exempt status in 1976?

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

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