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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Federal Poverty Limit for a family of three, in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?
(a) $42,000.
(b) $28,000.
(c) $21,000.
(d) $17,000.

2. What work does Rothstein say black families were largely forced to take after Reconstruction?
(a) Sharecropping.
(b) Soldiering.
(c) Shipbuilding.
(d) Industrial labor.

3. How does Rothstein suggest reforming the Section 8 program?
(a) Limiting recipients to descendants of slaves.
(b) Ending the program.
(c) Giving subsidies to more people.
(d) Giving recipients larger subsidies.

4. What does Rothstein say was a popular tool for whites who wanted to restrict integrated neighborhoods?
(a) Denying basic services.
(b) Threatening developers’ lives.
(c) Packing the courts to get favorable decisions.
(d) Rezoning them as industrial.

5. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?
(a) Valuable land.
(b) Blight.
(c) Profitable resources.
(d) Integrated communities.

6. What role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?
(a) Buying up homes before black families could buy.
(b) Advocating racially restrictive covenants.
(c) Threatening violence against black families.
(d) Raising funds for black families to move into integrated neighborhoods.

7. 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(a) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.
(b) Sued towns that raised requirements for integrated developments.
(c) Forced the police to suppress move-in riots when black families moved into integrated neighborhoods.
(d) Forced local governments to accept integrated developments.

8. Why did Bob Jones University lose its tax-exempt status in 1976?
(a) For maintaining segregated dorms.
(b) For banning inter-racial dating.
(c) For banning black students.
(d) For professors sleeping with students.

9. How does Rothstein characterize the roles that were open to African-American workers?
(a) Skilled.
(b) Management.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Menial.

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

11. What percent of white families’ income did black families have, in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?
(a) One quarter.
(b) One tenth.
(c) One fifth.
(d) One third.

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

13. What does Rothstein say was a quick and easy segregation problem to solve?
(a) Workplace discrimination.
(b) Bus seating segregation.
(c) School segregation.
(d) Salary discrimination.

14. What does Rothstein say whites suffer from as a result of systemic discrimination?
(a) Cynicism.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Envy.
(d) Perpetual fear.

15. What did the development try to do to get Gary out of the development?
(a) Buy his house for more than he paid for it.
(b) Charge him extra for his water and sewer services.
(c) Turn off his electricity.
(d) Make him pay for his police protection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say African Americans got after the Civil War?

2. What does Rothstein say police knew of, and ignored, in the rioters at Bill Myers’ house?

3. What does Rothstein say real estate agents were not required to do?

4. How does Rothstein characterize the qualities any solution to America’s racism will have to have?

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

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