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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 bound in chains of debt.
(b) They were misled.
(c) They were threatened with murder.
(d) They were deceived.

2. 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.

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

4. What does Rothstein suggest as a realistic remedy to systemic housing discrimination?
(a) Relocating white families to city centers.
(b) A fair share law.
(c) Demolishing white neighborhoods and putting in parks.
(d) Subsidies for African-American home-buyers.

5. How long did Bill Myers and his family stay in Levittown after the move-in riot?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 6 months.

6. For white families who bought homes in Levittown in 1948, how much value did they derive from appreciation?
(a) $75,000.
(b) $20,000.
(c) $125,000.
(d) $200,000.

7. What does Rothstein say is one of the most common justifications for segregation?
(a) That black families want to live together.
(b) That white families will be violent if they are forced to integrate.
(c) That black families cannot afford houses.
(d) That white families have irrational fears of black people.

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

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

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(d) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.

11. Where does Rothstein say inclusionary zoning ordinances are forcing builders to set aside units for low-income families?
(a) Maryland.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Colorado.

12. 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 professors sleeping with students.
(d) For banning black students.

13. What does Rothstein say organizations used tax-exempt status for?
(a) Legally discriminating against African Americans.
(b) Skirting laws about discrimination.
(c) Getting favorable mortgages for their properties.
(d) Creating wealth in their properties.

14. What is the first place Rothstein suggests making reforms?
(a) Textbooks.
(b) Section 8 vouchers.
(c) Housing subsidies.
(d) Tax law.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?

3. What right did the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 give to unions?

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

5. How does Rothstein characterize the federal, state and local government officials’ racial intent in suppressing African-American wages?

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