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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. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?
(a) When the interest was paid off.
(b) When they started making payments.
(c) When they moved out.
(d) When it was completely paid off.

2. Why does Rothstein say the Mereday family did not apply for mortgages?
(a) They refused to pay inflated rates.
(b) They knew they would be denied.
(c) They could not afford the bribes they would have to pay.
(d) They could not afford to buy homes.

3. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?
(a) Exurbs.
(b) Inner cities.
(c) Suburbs.
(d) Country.

4. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?
(a) Warren Harding.
(b) Harold Ickes.
(c) Herbert Hoover.
(d) Harland Bartholomew.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?

2. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?

3. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

4. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?

5. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What effect does Rothstein say Woodrow Wilson had on integration in the U.S. government?

4. What role does Rothstein say the federal government had to play in segregating America’s housing?

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

6. How did civil rights groups shifted their strategies in the 1960s, according to Rothstein?

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

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

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

10. What does Rothstein identify as the force that made blockbusting possible?

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