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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) $17,000.
(b) $21,000.
(c) $28,000.
(d) $42,000.

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

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

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

5. How does Rothstein characterize the qualities any solution to America’s racism will have to have?
(a) It will have to be both imprecise and complex.
(b) It will have to be simple and elegant.
(c) It will have to be fair and blind.
(d) It will have to be both broad and specific.

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

7. When was the second Great Migration that brought black families north?
(a) During World War II.
(b) During World War I.
(c) In the 1890s.
(d) In the 1920s.

8. 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 victories did not come with any enforcement mechanism.
(c) The court decisions were just ignored by government officials.
(d) By the time they won, the neighborhoods had been demolished.

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

10. What does Rothstein say African Americans got after the Civil War?
(a) Reparations.
(b) Protection.
(c) 40 acres and a mule.
(d) Nothing.

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

12. How does Rothstein say American wages changed between 1945 and 1973?
(a) Quadrupled.
(b) Tripled.
(c) Halved.
(d) Doubled.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rothstein say inclusionary zoning ordinances are forcing builders to set aside units for low-income families?

2. How does Rothstein suggest reforming the Section 8 program?

3. What role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?

4. Who does Rothstein say has suffered with African Americans for the injustice of segregation and discrimination?

5. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?

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