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

2. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?
(a) Contract sales.
(b) Straw man sales.
(c) Cash sales.
(d) Deferred sales.

3. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Poor educational opportunities.
(b) Crime.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Crowded homes.

4. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(b) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(c) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(d) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.

5. What does Rothstein say makes the racially restrictive covenants a state-sponsored strategy for de jure segregation?
(a) The courts enforced them.
(b) The FHA required them.
(c) The police enforced them.
(d) The HOLC required them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?

2. 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?

3. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?

4. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

5. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Rothstein say UCLA students in Westwood, near Los Angeles, got around their neighborhood’s racially restrictive covenants?

7. What was the Supreme Court’s logic when it upheld an exclusionary zoning ordinance in Arlington Heights, Chicago in 1977?

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

9. What does Rothstein say public housing means now, and what did it originally meant?

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

(see the answer keys)

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