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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flag did the mob fly outside of Bill Myers’ house, while the cops stood by doing nothing?
(a) The Confederate flag.
(b) The South African flag.
(c) The American flag.
(d) The Soviet flag.

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

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

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

5. In which neighborhood does Rothstein say whites “declared war” on African-American residents, and drove them out of the neighborhood?
(a) Woodlawn in Chicago.
(b) Levittown in Long Island.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Memphis Tennessee.

6. What does Rothstein say police knew of, and ignored, in the rioters at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) Racial animus.
(b) White supremacist ties.
(c) Plans to lynch Myers.
(d) Ties to the local police chief.

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

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

9. How much did a Levittown house that cost $75,000 in 1947 cost in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?
(a) $425,000.
(b) $200,000.
(c) $150,000.
(d) $300,000.

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

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

12. What was the main mechanism Rothstein says whites in power used to suppress black wages?
(a) Stealing their wages through sharecropping.
(b) Denying them access to union representation.
(c) Denying them access to skilled positions.
(d) Classifying their labor as exempt from wage regulation.

13. 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.

14. What does Rothstein say was a quick and easy segregation problem to solve?
(a) Salary discrimination.
(b) Workplace discrimination.
(c) Bus seating segregation.
(d) School segregation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. What is a problem Rothstein says that African Americans suffer from as a result of poor housing conditions?

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