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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What concept allowed white administrators to perpetuate the injustice of segregation?
(a) Free will.
(b) Caveat emptor.
(c) The free market.
(d) Might makes right.

3. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?
(a) They advocated for a free market approach.
(b) They did not describe policies for integration.
(c) They advocated subsides for African-American families.
(d) They advocated for integrated housing.

4. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?
(a) In World War I.
(b) In construction.
(c) In the stock market.
(d) In World War II.

5. When did the U.S. Supreme Court find that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1917.

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

7. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?
(a) He argued for separate but equal housing.
(b) He argued for integrated housing.
(c) He argued for a market-based approach to integrate.
(d) He argued in favor of segregated housing in 1918.

8. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?
(a) They prevented their police from enforcing them.
(b) They refused to enforce them.
(c) They actively promoted them.
(d) They turned a blind eye to them.

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

10. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?
(a) Housing was not related to slavery.
(b) Housing was fully covered by anti-discrimination laws.
(c) Housing was a human right.
(d) Housing was only accountable to the market.

11. What does Rothstein say binds Americans to solving the problem of housing segregation?
(a) International law.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) A moral obligation.
(d) Religious dictate.

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

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

14. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because communities refused to admit them.
(b) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(c) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(d) Because they could not afford them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

2. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?

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

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

5. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?

(see the answer keys)

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