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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1921.

2. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?
(a) Shelley.
(b) Brown.
(c) Buchanan.
(d) Jones.

3. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Single-family.
(b) Multi-family.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Agricultural.

4. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1968.
(d) 2001.

5. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?
(a) A white slum.
(b) An airport.
(c) A shopping district.
(d) An integrated neighborhood.

6. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(b) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(c) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(d) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.

7. How does Rothstein characterize the FHA’s theory about value in terms African Americans bringing down housing prices?
(a) Deluded.
(b) Factually accurate.
(c) Self-fulfilling.
(d) A misrepresentation.

8. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Poor educational opportunities.
(c) Crowded homes.
(d) Crime.

9. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?
(a) Allowing racist mobs to commit crimes with impunity.
(b) Vandalizing model homes in integrated developments.
(c) Harassing blacks with petty arrests.
(d) Murdering unarmed black people to keep them out of the city.

10. What does Rothstein say was the first consequence of black families moving into whites neighborhoods through blockbusting?
(a) Prices went down slightly.
(b) Prices remained constant.
(c) Prices went up.
(d) Prices went down steeply.

11. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?
(a) The working poor.
(b) Indigent people.
(c) Lower- and middle-class families.
(d) Refugees from sharecropping.

12. What is de jure segregation?
(a) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(b) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(c) Government policies keeping races apart.
(d) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.

13. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1912.

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

15. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it.
(b) It encouraged it.
(c) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(d) It helped hide it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?

2. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?

3. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

4. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?

5. Who does Rothstein say was the only one who had standing to enforce a racially restrictive covenant?

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