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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. How does Rothstein suggest reforming the Section 8 program?
(a) Limiting recipients to descendants of slaves.
(b) Giving recipients larger subsidies.
(c) Giving subsidies to more people.
(d) Ending the program.

2. How did planning officials characterize black neighborhoods when they were planning to demolish or appropriate them?
(a) Integrated communities.
(b) Valuable land.
(c) Blight.
(d) Profitable resources.

3. How does Rothstein say American wages changed between 1945 and 1973?
(a) Doubled.
(b) Halved.
(c) Tripled.
(d) Quadrupled.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rothstein characterize the qualities any solution to America’s racism will have to have?

2. What does Rothstein say was used after the 1954 Brown decision to fix the problems created by segregated housing?

3. What was the condition that led the FHA to finally back the UAW’s development in Milpitas?

4. When does Rothstein say civil rights laws started to be passed in the U.S.?

5. What was the Federal Poverty Limit for a family of three, in 2017 when Rothstein published The Color of Law?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What steps were taken to keep Wilbur Gary from moving into his house in the Rollingwood development in Richmond, CA?

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

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

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

10. Why does Rothstein say housing is such a difficult field for righting past injustices?

(see the answer keys)

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