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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 role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?
(a) Buying up homes before black families could buy.
(b) Advocating racially restrictive covenants.
(c) Threatening violence against black families.
(d) Raising funds for black families to move into integrated neighborhoods.

2. How many African Americans moved north in the Second Great Migration?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 19 million.
(c) 118 million.
(d) 1 million.

3. To what does Rothstein attribute the fact that schools are more segregated today than in 1967?
(a) Economic injustice.
(b) Housing segregation.
(c) Busing.
(d) Ongoing racism.

4. How does Rothstein characterize the qualities any solution to America’s racism will have to have?
(a) It will have to be fair and blind.
(b) It will have to be both broad and specific.
(c) It will have to be both imprecise and complex.
(d) It will have to be simple and elegant.

5. Who protected Wilbur Gary’s house and family from the white mob?
(a) State police
(b) Federal troops.
(c) NAACP.
(d) Local police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did local officials do to prevent the AFSC from building an integrated development?

2. What is the first place Rothstein suggests making reforms?

3. How does Rothstein say the IRS abetted segregation?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What other local tactics does Rothstein describe?

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

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

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

5. How does Rothstein say the 2008 housing collapse affected black families?

6. What role did the federal government play in the riot outside Bill Myers’ house in Levittown in Pennsylvania?

7. What does Rothstein say was the IRS’ role in promoting segregation?

8. 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?

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

10. Who does Rothstein say suffers for the segregation black families have faced?

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