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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?
(a) Collapse.
(b) Redistribution, as families moved west.
(c) Glut.
(d) Shortage.

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

3. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) World War I.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) World War II.

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

5. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.
(b) Push for integration in neighborhoods.
(c) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.
(d) Establish racial neighborhood zones.

6. How does Rothstein characterize the justifications planning committees used for segregation and discrimination when they knew the Constitutional requirement?
(a) Disingenuous misdirection.
(b) Thinly-disguised lies.
(c) Thin veneer of legalese.
(d) Smoke and mirrors.

7. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?
(a) 1972.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1988.

8. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?
(a) He was imprisoned.
(b) He was exonerated.
(c) He was driven out of the state.
(d) He was blacklisted by the FHA.

9. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?
(a) For voting against his neighborhoods racially restrictive covenants.
(b) For lying to appraisers.
(c) For offering a private mortgage to a black family.
(d) For selling his house to a black family.

10. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.
(b) Los Angeles race riots.
(c) Riots in Ferguson.
(d) White supremacists’ murders of black people.

11. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Selling homes to African Americans.
(b) Intermarriage.
(c) Employing African Americans.
(d) Black business ownership.

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

13. What ethnic group was included in prohibitions of sales in Brookline, MA, alongside African Americans?
(a) Greek.
(b) Irish.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Germans.

14. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?
(a) It gave towns 25 years to comply.
(b) It stripped out any enforcement mechanisms.
(c) It delayed implementation.
(d) It refused to implement the change.

15. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?
(a) There was evidence of prices going up slightly.
(b) There was evidence of prices going down slightly.
(c) There was evidence of prices going up drastically.
(d) No evidence of any effect on price.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?

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

3. What kind of language did federal documents use to disguise their racial intent?

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

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

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