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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Limits on black contractors.
(b) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.
(c) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(d) Excluding black workers from skills positions.

2. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?
(a) For selling his house to a black family.
(b) For offering a private mortgage to a black family.
(c) For voting against his neighborhoods racially restrictive covenants.
(d) For lying to appraisers.

3. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?
(a) Racism.
(b) Fear of contagion.
(c) Fear of violence.
(d) Guilt.

4. How does Rothstein characterize blockbusting?
(a) As a federal government policy.
(b) As a few renegade real estate agents deceiving the public.
(c) As a form of de jure segregation.
(d) As a form of collusion with the FHA.

5. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?
(a) He argued for integrated housing.
(b) He argued in favor of segregated housing in 1918.
(c) He argued for separate but equal housing.
(d) He argued for a market-based approach to integrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

2. How does Rothstein characterize the housing policy as Richmond California built public housing during wartime?

3. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

4. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?

5. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did towns and developments find ways around the Buchanan decision?

2. What does Rothstein cite as evidence that the government is obligated to remedy segregation?

3. What strategies would blockbusters use to create panic in white families?

4. How did life change in the South in 1877?

5. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s Buchanan decision in 1917?

6. How did community associations evolve out of racially restrictive covenants?

7. What was the evidence published in Appraisal Journal on the question of whether black families affect housing prices?

8. How did the New Deal affect segregation of housing in the U.S.?

9. Why did Roosevelt’s New Deal leave African Americans behind, according to Rothstein?

10. How did many of the African-American men in Rothstein’s study rise to the status where they could afford to buy houses?

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