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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?
(a) 5th,13th, 14th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 13th.
(d) 2nd.

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

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(b) Fair share policies.
(c) Racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Racial zoning ordinances.

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

6. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?
(a) They stopped amortizing them.
(b) They amortized them.
(c) They extended them to black families.
(d) They made them shorter.

7. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Richmond, CA.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Camden, NJ.

8. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) Protection for the powerless.
(b) Reparations.
(c) A fair society.
(d) Return to places of origin.

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

10. What does Rothstein say about the quality of developments built without FHA backing?
(a) It was more likely to be temporary.
(b) It was generally better.
(c) It was generally poorer.
(d) It was more likely to be locally sourced.

11. How recently has the U.S. Supreme Court said that de facto segregation is beyond its jurisdiction?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1992.
(d) 2007.

12. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1933.

13. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They remedied it.
(b) They restored it.
(c) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(d) They exacerbated it.

14. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Excluding black workers from skills positions.
(b) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(c) Limits on black contractors.
(d) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?

2. What does Rothstein say made black families a risk in the mortgage industry?

3. How did the FHA limit the effect of the Supreme Court decision making racially restrictive covenants unconstitutional?

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

5. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?

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