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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. Where did the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) find financing for an integrated development?
(a) Metropolitan Life.
(b) Private backers.
(c) California government.
(d) Federal government.

2. What does Rothstein say is one of the most common justifications for segregation?
(a) That white families have irrational fears of black people.
(b) That black families cannot afford houses.
(c) That black families want to live together.
(d) That white families will be violent if they are forced to integrate.

3. What does Rothstein say police knew of, and ignored, in the rioters at Bill Myers’ house?
(a) Racial animus.
(b) White supremacist ties.
(c) Plans to lynch Myers.
(d) Ties to the local police chief.

4. When was the second Great Migration that brought black families north?
(a) In the 1920s.
(b) During World War II.
(c) In the 1890s.
(d) During World War I.

5. How does Rothstein say the IRS abetted segregation?
(a) By penalizing black families for living in majority-white neighborhoods.
(b) By preserving tax-exempt status of organizations that fostered segregation.
(c) By eliminating tax-exempt status for organizations that fought segregation.
(d) By auditing organizations that sought to build integrated housing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?

2. How does Rothstein say banks have reacted to the real estate market for black families in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse?

3. What percent of white families’ income did black families have, in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?

4. How much did a Levittown house that cost $75,000 in 1947 cost in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did cities use slum clearance as a justification for segregation?

2. What is Rothstein’s first suggestion for reforming our country to address systemic racism?

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

4. 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?

5. What steps does Rothstein say the real estate industry could take to remedy years of structural injustice?

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

7. How does Rothstein say wage growth affected African Americans differently than whites?

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

9. How does Rothstein say tax policy was abused to the detriment of African Americans?

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

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