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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) Shortage.
(b) Redistribution, as families moved west.
(c) Glut.
(d) Collapse.

2. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?
(a) Higher rents for lower-quality properties.
(b) Higher rents and threats from local police.
(c) Tight surveillance by the KKK and threats from police.
(d) Lower rents for squalid conditions.

3. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
(a) Integrated.
(b) Segregated.
(c) Separate-but-equal.
(d) Houses for whites, slums for blacks.

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

5. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Stories where integration drew people willing to pay to live in an integrated neighborhood.
(b) Data from neighborhoods where blacks were drawn in to pay higher prices.
(c) Sales data from integrated and segregated neighborhoods outside Newark NJ.
(d) Tax receipts from neighborhoods where African Americans moved in.

6. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) 1960s.
(b) New Deal.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

7. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?
(a) Life off one wage-earner.
(b) Buy second homes.
(c) Add additions to their homes.
(d) Afford maintenance.

8. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?
(a) 70%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 85%.

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

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

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

12. Why does Rothstein say the Mereday family did not apply for mortgages?
(a) They could not afford to buy homes.
(b) They knew they would be denied.
(c) They refused to pay inflated rates.
(d) They could not afford the bribes they would have to pay.

13. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?
(a) In a segregated neighborhood.
(b) In an integrating neighborhood.
(c) In a comfortable suburb.
(d) In a slum.

14. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Camden, NJ.
(d) Chicago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. Supreme Court find that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

2. What is de facto segregation?

3. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?

4. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

5. How does Rothstein characterize the justifications planning committees used for segregation and discrimination when they knew the Constitutional requirement?

(see the answer keys)

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