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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Denied them wages.
(b) Concentrated them in slums.
(c) Built equity.
(d) Subjected them to mass incarceration.

5. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) In the suburbs.
(b) Slums.
(c) In the country.
(d) Scattered throughout the exurbs.

6. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(b) Blacks gained representation in government.
(c) Blacks were kept out of government.
(d) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.

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

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

9. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?
(a) When it was completely paid off.
(b) When they started making payments.
(c) When they moved out.
(d) When the interest was paid off.

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

11. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?
(a) Rothstein wanted to demonstrate how our current problems are rooted in historical trends.
(b) Rothstein says that he wants to make it clear that segregation was a deliberate policy of the U.S. government.
(c) Rothstein says he wanted to expose the details that reveal the inaccuracies at the heart of federal housing policy.
(d) Rothstein says he wants to show that segregation involved good people on both sides of the issue.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Fair Housing Act passed?

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

3. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

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

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

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