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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 did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?
(a) History.
(b) Racial strife.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Political powerlessness.

2. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?
(a) Jones.
(b) Brown.
(c) Shelley.
(d) Buchanan.

3. Where did Leroy Mereday’s son, Robert, make his career?
(a) Construction.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Hostelry.
(d) Shipbuilding.

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

5. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?
(a) Glut.
(b) Shortage.
(c) Redistribution, as families moved west.
(d) Collapse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the U.S. start building public housing?

3. What development gave the Mereday family business?

4. What percentage of Westchester county, NY, subdivisions with more than 75 units, built between 1935 and 1947 does Rothstein say had racially restrictive covenants?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the evidence published in Appraisal Journal on the question of whether black families affect housing prices?

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

5. When black families could end up getting mortgages, how does Rothstein say those mortgages affected them?

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

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

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

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

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

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