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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What was the Federal Poverty Limit for a family of three, in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?
(a) $21,000.
(b) $17,000.
(c) $28,000.
(d) $42,000.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the development try to do to get Gary out of the development?
(a) Buy his house for more than he paid for it.
(b) Turn off his electricity.
(c) Make him pay for his police protection.
(d) Charge him extra for his water and sewer services.

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

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

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

14. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?
(a) They are again offering subprime loans to black families.
(b) They have moved to making subprime car loans to black families, instead of home loans.
(c) They have started to offer subprime loans to other ethnic groups, to trap them in poverty as well.
(d) They have stopped offering subprime loans to black families.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rothstein say was a popular tool for whites who wanted to restrict integrated neighborhoods?

3. What does Rothstein say was an obstacle to quick change in the housing market after the passage of the Fair Housing Act?

4. What does Rothstein say happened to George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, when he started a program called Open Communities to deny federal funds to localities that still had racially restrictive covenant and exclusionary zoning ordinances?

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

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