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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 is redlining?
(a) Placing neighborhoods next to industrial neighborhoods.
(b) Charging higher interest on a managing.
(c) Increasing the amount a family has to put down to get a mortgage.
(d) Refusing to offer mortgages to black families in certain areas.

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

3. In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold racially restrictive covenants as well as exclusionary zoning ordinances?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1984.

4. What is the most extreme measure blockbusters took to inspire racial fears and get whites to sell their homes?
(a) Hire black men to canvas door-to-door, looking for houses for sale.
(b) Advertise home for sale in black newspapers.
(c) Set up burglaries.
(d) Hire black women to push baby carriages through a neighborhood.

5. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?
(a) They realigned it along economic class lines.
(b) They remedied it.
(c) They exacerbated it.
(d) They restored it.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rothstein say the Supreme Court overturned its 1883 decision?

2. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?

3. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Rothstein say blacks were prevented from voting in South Carolina in 1876?

6. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s Buchanan decision in 1917?

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

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

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

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

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