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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. What does Rothstein say real estate agents were not required to do?
(a) Disclose exploitative rates to customers.
(b) Follow laws about conflicts of interests.
(c) Report racial constitution of each neighborhood they sold a house in.
(d) Segregate neighborhoods by race.

2. How many African Americans moved north in the Second Great Migration?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 4 million.
(c) 118 million.
(d) 19 million.

3. How long does Rothstein say the riot went on at Wilbur Gary’s house?
(a) A month.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three months.

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

5. Who does Rothstein say has suffered with African Americans for the injustice of segregation and discrimination?
(a) Asian-Americans.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) All Americans.
(d) Latinos.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?

2. What is reverse redlining?

3. How does Rothstein characterize the roles that were open to African-American workers?

4. How does Rothstein say American histories typically tell the story of housing discrimination?

5. How big was the mob that threw rocks at Wilbur Gary’s house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Rothstein say was arrested when Andrew Wade, an African-American veteran, tried to move into the white suburb of Shively outside Louisville, Kentucky in 1954?

2. What steps does Rothstein say the real estate industry could take to remedy years of structural injustice?

3. Why does Rothstein examine the wage suppression of African Americans?

4. How does Rothstein characterize the obstacles faced by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in desegregating Richmond, CA?

5. What effect does Rothstein say the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision have on housing segregation?

6. How does Rothstein say wage growth affected African Americans differently than whites?

7. What strategies does Rothstein say whites used to keep black wages down?

8. What does Rothstein say caused the fire bombings in Chicago in 1919?

9. How were African Americans denied the right to collectively bargain for better wages?

10. What steps were taken to keep Wilbur Gary from moving into his house in the Rollingwood development in Richmond, CA?

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