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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the leader of the riot at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) A powerful real estate developer.
(b) An elected official.
(c) A well-known attorney.
(d) A local police chief.

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

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

4. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?
(a) The rents were too high for African-American families to afford.
(b) By the time the state won its case, the wait list was already full.
(c) Black families refused to move there.
(d) Whites there threatened violence against black families.

5. Where did the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) find financing for an integrated development?
(a) Private backers.
(b) California government.
(c) Metropolitan Life.
(d) Federal government.

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

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

8. Who does Rothstein say has suffered with African Americans for the injustice of segregation and discrimination?
(a) Asian-Americans.
(b) Native Americans.
(c) All Americans.
(d) Latinos.

9. 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) Raising funds for black families to move into integrated neighborhoods.
(d) Threatening violence against black families.

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

11. 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) Economic stagnation.
(c) Police obstruction.
(d) Court challenges.

12. 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.

13. What order does Rothstein say the police had been given in relation to the riot at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) Not to interfere.
(b) To protect the family’s property.
(c) To keep the protest peaceful.
(d) To ban the use of alcohol.

14. 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 courts offered no recompense and demanded no changes.
(b) The court decisions were just ignored by government officials.
(c) The victories did not come with any enforcement mechanism.
(d) By the time they won, the neighborhoods had been demolished.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say is one of the most common justifications for segregation?

2. In which neighborhood does Rothstein say whites “declared war” on African-American residents, and drove them out of the neighborhood?

3. Why did Bob Jones University lose its tax-exempt status in 1976?

4. What does Rothstein suggest as a realistic remedy to systemic housing discrimination?

5. For whose sake does Rothstein say we should take responsibility for our history?

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