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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did it not matter to black families that the courts generally saw through the racial motivations of developers who demolished black or integrated neighborhoods?
(a) The victories did not come with any enforcement mechanism.
(b) The courts offered no recompense and demanded no changes.
(c) The court decisions were just ignored by government officials.
(d) By the time they won, the neighborhoods had been demolished.

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

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

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

5. How were black families kept in the employment they were forced to take after reconstruction?
(a) They were deceived.
(b) They were threatened with murder.
(c) They were bound in chains of debt.
(d) They were misled.

6. What was Houston’s “Race Restriction Areas” map used for?
(a) Integrating Houston’s new developments.
(b) Limiting where blacks could find affordable housing.
(c) Limiting where whites could build.
(d) De-integrating Houston’s neighborhoods.

7. In which neighborhood does Rothstein say whites “declared war” on African-American residents, and drove them out of the neighborhood?
(a) Memphis Tennessee.
(b) Woodlawn in Chicago.
(c) Levittown in Long Island.
(d) Detroit.

8. For whose sake does Rothstein say we should take responsibility for our history?
(a) For descendants of enslaved people.
(b) For our predecessors.
(c) For all Americans.
(d) For the racist ancestors who practiced segregation.

9. According to Rothstein, what purposes did local governments seize black neighborhoods for?
(a) Private development.
(b) Industrial development.
(c) Parks and highways.
(d) Airports and subway systems.

10. In what way were African Americans still bought and sold even after the end of slavery?
(a) As communities.
(b) As servants.
(c) As prisoners.
(d) As serfs.

11. What was the main mechanism Rothstein says whites in power used to suppress black wages?
(a) Classifying their labor as exempt from wage regulation.
(b) Denying them access to skilled positions.
(c) Denying them access to union representation.
(d) Stealing their wages through sharecropping.

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

13. How much did a Levittown house that cost $75,000 in 1947 cost in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?
(a) $425,000.
(b) $150,000.
(c) $300,000.
(d) $200,000.

14. How big was the mob that threw rocks at Wilbur Gary’s house?
(a) 300.
(b) 100.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 50.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was David Bohannon a developer after World War II?

2. How does Rothstein say American wages changed between 1945 and 1973?

3. Who was the leader of the riot at Bill Myers’ house?

4. How long did Bill Myers and his family stay in Levittown after the move-in riot?

5. What is a problem Rothstein says that African Americans suffer from as a result of poor housing conditions?

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