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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 makes Rothstein say that real estate agents engaged in blockbusting were engaging in de jure segregation?
(a) They were advocating public policies that supported their trade.
(b) They were licensed by state real estate boards.
(c) They swore an oath to uphold the non-discrimination local laws.
(d) They were appointed by the government.

2. What excuses does Rothstein say federal officials used to hide the racist consequences of housing policy?
(a) People do not like change.
(b) They were just making economic decisions.
(c) People were going to live with their own kind.
(d) They were doing what they were elected to do.

3. What does Rothstein say was a quick and easy segregation problem to solve?
(a) Workplace discrimination.
(b) School segregation.
(c) Bus seating segregation.
(d) Salary discrimination.

4. What does Rothstein say the American government will have to address along with housing discrimination?
(a) Business opportunities.
(b) Educational opportunities.
(c) Wage stagnation.
(d) Health care access.

5. Why was Stuyvesant Town not integrated, even though New York state forced the development to admit African Americans?
(a) By the time the state won its case, the wait list was already full.
(b) The rents were too high for African-American families to afford.
(c) Whites there threatened violence against black families.
(d) Black families refused to move there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?

2. What right did the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 give to unions?

3. Where was David Bohannon a developer after World War II?

4. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?

5. What does Rothstein say was an obstacle to quick change in the housing market after the passage of the Fair Housing Act?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rothstein say was the fate of George Romney’s attempts at integration in 1970?

2. Who does Rothstein say was arrested when Andrew Wade, an African-American veteran, tried to move into the white suburb of Shively outside Louisville, Kentucky in 1954?

3. How does Rothstein say federal policies actively injured black communities?

4. How has appreciation affected the wealth disparity between black and white families in America?

5. What strategies does Rothstein say whites used to keep black wages down?

6. What complicating variable does Rothstein include in listing the consequences of growing up in poverty?

7. What effect does Rothstein say the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision have on housing segregation?

8. Why does Rothstein examine the wage suppression of African Americans?

9. How were African Americans denied the right to collectively bargain for better wages?

10. What does Rothstein say caused the fire bombings in Chicago in 1919?

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