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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. 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.

2. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?
(a) 19th.
(b) 2nd.
(c) 5th,13th, 14th.
(d) 13th.

3. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?
(a) Rothstein says he wanted to expose the details that reveal the inaccuracies at the heart of federal housing policy.
(b) Rothstein wanted to demonstrate how our current problems are rooted in historical trends.
(c) Rothstein says he wants to show that segregation involved good people on both sides of the issue.
(d) Rothstein says that he wants to make it clear that segregation was a deliberate policy of the U.S. government.

4. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?
(a) Segregated.
(b) Integrated.
(c) Separate-but-equal.
(d) Houses for whites, slums for blacks.

5. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1917.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?

2. What was demolished to make way for the first PWA development?

3. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?

4. What does Rothstein say the FHA’s appraisal standards included?

5. How does Rothstein characterize the justifications planning committees used for segregation and discrimination when they knew the Constitutional requirement?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When black families could end up getting mortgages, how does Rothstein say those mortgages affected them?

3. What was the economic argument racist local governments used for restricting black families’ housing options?

4. What does Rothstein say the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded about the American government’s role in creating segregation?

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

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

7. How does Rothstein circumvent the argument that racially restrictive covenants and exclusionary zoning ordinances were private agreements?

8. Why does Rothstein say that Robert Mereday did not even bother filing an application for a mortgage?

9. What is the distinction Rothstein makes between de jure and de facto segregation?

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

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