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

2. What is de facto segregation?
(a) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(b) Government policies keeping races apart.
(c) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.
(d) Private decisions keeping races apart.

3. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(b) Blacks were kept out of government.
(c) Blacks gained representation in government.
(d) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.

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) Harland Bartholomew.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?

2. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?

3. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

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

5. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did towns and developments find ways around the Buchanan decision?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Rothstein say the purpose of his book is?

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

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