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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What excuses does Rothstein say federal officials used to hide the racist consequences of housing policy?
(a) People do not like change.
(b) They were doing what they were elected to do.
(c) People were going to live with their own kind.
(d) They were just making economic decisions.

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

4. What is reverse redlining?
(a) Making black families live near industrial areas.
(b) Keeping black families out of certain neighborhoods.
(c) Demolishing black neighborhoods for highways.
(d) Making exploitative loans to black families.

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

6. What makes Rothstein say that real estate agents engaged in blockbusting were engaging in de jure segregation?
(a) They were appointed by the government.
(b) They swore an oath to uphold the non-discrimination local laws.
(c) They were advocating public policies that supported their trade.
(d) They were licensed by state real estate boards.

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

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

9. When does Rothstein say civil rights laws started to be passed in the U.S.?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1957.

10. How does Rothstein characterize the relationship between the wealth of parents and the wealth of their children?
(a) Inverted proportion.
(b) Linear.
(c) Unrelated.
(d) Consistent.

11. What does Rothstein say was used after the 1954 Brown decision to fix the problems created by segregated housing?
(a) Busing.
(b) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.
(c) Fair share programs.
(d) Federal loan guarantees.

12. How does Rothstein characterize the federal, state and local government officials’ racial intent in suppressing African-American wages?
(a) Unintentional.
(b) Obfuscated.
(c) Undisguised.
(d) Coded.

13. Who does Rothstein say spread the word that Bill Myers, an African-American veteran, had moved into the Levittown in Pennsylvania?
(a) Kids.
(b) Housewives.
(c) The postman.
(d) Local builders.

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

15. What is a problem Rothstein says that African Americans suffer from as a result of poor housing conditions?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Gout.
(c) Anemia.
(d) Asthma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did local officials do to prevent the AFSC from building an integrated development?

2. Where did the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) find financing for an integrated development?

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

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

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

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