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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?
(a) When it was completely paid off.
(b) When the interest was paid off.
(c) When they started making payments.
(d) When they moved out.

2. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?
(a) Warren Harding.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Harold Ickes.
(d) Harland Bartholomew.

3. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Camden, NJ.
(d) Detroit.

4. Where does Rothstein say blockbusting had its roots?
(a) Federal housing policy.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Racism.
(d) Private decisions.

5. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Anecdotes from homeowners in Kentucky.
(b) Generalizations about the purity of races.
(c) There was no hard evidence.
(d) Years of property value data.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

2. What else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?

3. How does Rothstein characterize the justifications planning committees used for segregation and discrimination when they knew the Constitutional requirement?

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

5. How does Rothstein characterize the housing policy as Richmond California built public housing during wartime?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rothstein say that he started his book in San Francisco Bay?

2. How did the New Deal affect segregation of housing in the U.S.?

3. What effect does Rothstein say Woodrow Wilson had on integration in the U.S. government?

4. How do the political parties that operated in America in the late 1800s correspond to today’s political parties?

5. What does Rothstein identify as the force that made blockbusting possible?

6. Why did Roosevelt’s New Deal leave African Americans behind, according to Rothstein?

7. How does Rothstein circumvent the argument that racially restrictive covenants and exclusionary zoning ordinances were private agreements?

8. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s Buchanan decision in 1917?

9. How does Rothstein say blacks were prevented from voting in South Carolina in 1876?

10. What problems does Rothstein say developers encountered when they tried to sell to African-American families?

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