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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most extreme measure blockbusters took to inspire racial fears and get whites to sell their homes?
(a) Hire black women to push baby carriages through a neighborhood.
(b) Advertise home for sale in black newspapers.
(c) Hire black men to canvas door-to-door, looking for houses for sale.
(d) Set up burglaries.

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

3. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?
(a) Cash sales.
(b) Straw man sales.
(c) Deferred sales.
(d) Contract sales.

4. What does Rothstein say caused many black families to lose the homes they bought from blockbusters?
(a) Lack of income.
(b) Threats of violence.
(c) Loss of jobs.
(d) High payments.

5. What did homeowners claim made deeds exempt from laws governing discrimination?
(a) They were legal documents.
(b) They were not backed by federal statute.
(c) They were economic agreements.
(d) They were private.

6. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Apartheid.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Racially restrictive covenants.
(d) Reign of Terror.

7. When did the PWA end?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1917.

8. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?
(a) As a form of de jure segregation.
(b) As a federal government policy.
(c) As a few renegade real estate agents deceiving the public.
(d) As a form of collusion with the FHA.

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

10. What does Rothstein say the FHA did to segregation in housing?
(a) Ended it as federal policy.
(b) Stripped out any enforcement to support integration.
(c) Allowed local governments to set their own standards.
(d) Made it federal policy.

11. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(b) Used the plan anyway.
(c) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.
(d) Revised it to make it more inclusive.

12. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?
(a) They shifted to a policy of inclusive covenants.
(b) They set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.
(c) They started to remedy segregated neighborhoods.
(d) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.

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

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

15. What does Rothstein say the FHA’s appraisal standards included?
(a) A whites-only requirements.
(b) A reparations requirement.
(c) A fair share requirement.
(d) An integration requirement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?

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

3. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?

4. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?

5. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?

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