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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?
(a) Forced the police to suppress move-in riots when black families moved into integrated neighborhoods.
(b) Sued towns that raised requirements for integrated developments.
(c) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.
(d) Forced local governments to accept integrated developments.

2. What does Rothstein say happened to George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, when he started a program called Open Communities to deny federal funds to localities that still had racially restrictive covenant and exclusionary zoning ordinances?
(a) He was fired.
(b) He retired before the program could start.
(c) Nixon forced him out of office.
(d) He was transferred to another department.

3. To what does Rothstein attribute the fact that schools are more segregated today than in 1967?
(a) Ongoing racism.
(b) Housing segregation.
(c) Economic injustice.
(d) Busing.

4. Who protected Wilbur Gary’s house and family from the white mob?
(a) NAACP.
(b) Federal troops.
(c) Local police.
(d) State police

5. What does Rothstein say was an obstacle to quick change in the housing market after the passage of the Fair Housing Act?
(a) Slow turnover.
(b) Court challenges.
(c) Police obstruction.
(d) Economic stagnation.

6. What does Rothstein say police knew of, and ignored, in the rioters at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) Ties to the local police chief.
(b) Racial animus.
(c) Plans to lynch Myers.
(d) White supremacist ties.

7. What does Rothstein say the American myth that hard work leads to success overlook?
(a) Income inequality.
(b) Automation.
(c) Systemic discrimination.
(d) Wage stagnation.

8. What does Rothstein say the American government will have to address along with housing discrimination?
(a) Educational opportunities.
(b) Business opportunities.
(c) Wage stagnation.
(d) Health care access.

9. What right did the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 give to unions?
(a) The right to boycott.
(b) The right to get federal work training.
(c) The right to deny membership to African Americans.
(d) The right to strike.

10. What was the condition that led the FHA to finally back the UAW’s development in Milpitas?
(a) The development would be segregated.
(b) The development would include only wealthy families.
(c) The development would be integrated, but races would be separated by a stream.
(d) The development would be a co-op.

11. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?
(a) School construction.
(b) Section 8 program.
(c) Mortgage subsidy program.
(d) Highway construction.

12. How does Rothstein say the IRS abetted segregation?
(a) By eliminating tax-exempt status for organizations that fought segregation.
(b) By preserving tax-exempt status of organizations that fostered segregation.
(c) By penalizing black families for living in majority-white neighborhoods.
(d) By auditing organizations that sought to build integrated housing.

13. How long does Rothstein say the riot went on at Wilbur Gary’s house?
(a) Three months.
(b) A month.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three weeks.

14. What does Rothstein say created the emotional time in which the Fair Housing Act was passed?
(a) Robert Kennedy’s assassination.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
(c) Rosa Parks’ bus protest.
(d) The march in Selma.

15. When was the second Great Migration that brought black families north?
(a) In the 1890s.
(b) During World War I.
(c) In the 1920s.
(d) During World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein characterize the relationship between the wealth of parents and the wealth of their children?

2. How many African Americans moved north in the Second Great Migration?

3. What was the Federal Poverty Limit for a family of three, in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?

4. What does Rothstein say organizations used tax-exempt status for?

5. When was the first Great Migration that brought black families north?

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