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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 does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?
(a) Housing was not related to slavery.
(b) Housing was fully covered by anti-discrimination laws.
(c) Housing was only accountable to the market.
(d) Housing was a human right.

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

3. Where does Rothstein say Leroy Mereday was born?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Camden, NJ.
(d) Hamburg, SC.

4. What was the case that resulted in the decision that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Buchanan v. Warley.
(c) Shelley v. Kramer.
(d) Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.

5. What ethnic group was included in prohibitions of sales in Brookline, MA, alongside African Americans?
(a) Germans.
(b) Greek.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?

2. How does Rothstein characterize the prices African Americans paid for homes bought and flipped by blockbusters?

3. How did the FHA’s own 1948 report characterize the black families’ conditions in neighborhoods they could not move out of?

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

5. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is blockbusting?

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

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

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

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

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

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