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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 turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) Los Angeles race riots.
(b) White supremacists’ murders of black people.
(c) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.
(d) Riots in Ferguson.

2. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Black business ownership.
(b) Selling homes to African Americans.
(c) Intermarriage.
(d) Employing African Americans.

3. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Years of property value data.
(b) There was no hard evidence.
(c) Anecdotes from homeowners in Kentucky.
(d) Generalizations about the purity of races.

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

5. What development gave the Mereday family business?
(a) Stuyvesant town.
(b) Rollingwood in Richmond, CA.
(c) Levittown.
(d) De Porres in St. Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is redlining?

2. What euphemism does Rothstein say appraisers used to describe integrated neighborhoods?

3. When did the PWA end?

4. What was the case that resulted in the decision that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

5. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was housing policy affected by the 1968 Jones decision?

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

3. Why does Rothstein say that he started his book in San Francisco Bay?

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

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

6. What backing does Rothstein say the FHA presented to support its claim that African Americans lowered property values?

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

8. How do the political parties that operated in America in the late 1800s correspond to today’s political parties?

9. How did the courts end the use of racially restrictive covenant?

10. How did the government overcome expense as a barrier to home ownership under Hoover?

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