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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?
(a) Integrated communities.
(b) Profitable resources.
(c) Valuable land.
(d) Blight.

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

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

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

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(c) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.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

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

8. What right did the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 give to unions?
(a) The right to deny membership to African Americans.
(b) The right to boycott.
(c) The right to get federal work training.
(d) The right to strike.

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

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

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

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

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

14. How have American wages changed since 1973?
(a) They have doubled.
(b) They have been flat.
(c) They have tripled.
(d) They have halved.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein characterize the roles that were open to African-American workers?

2. According to Rothstein, what purposes did local governments seize black neighborhoods for?

3. What does Rothstein say created the emotional time in which the Fair Housing Act was passed?

4. How does Rothstein characterize the qualities any solution to America’s racism will have to have?

5. How long does Rothstein say the riot went on at Wilbur Gary’s house?

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