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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. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?
(a) Slums.
(b) Scattered throughout the exurbs.
(c) In the country.
(d) In the suburbs.

2. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it.
(b) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(c) It encouraged it.
(d) It helped hide it.

3. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?
(a) 25%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 85%.

4. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1912.

5. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most extreme measure blockbusters took to inspire racial fears and get whites to sell their homes?

2. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?

3. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?

4. What does Rothstein say caused many black families to lose the homes they bought from blockbusters?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is blockbusting?

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

4. How does Rothstein say deeds were used as mechanisms of segregation, and how does he say they were backed as de jure segregation?

5. What does Rothstein say the purpose of his book is?

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

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

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

9. Where does Rothstein say public housing started in the U.S.?

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

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