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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did U.S. housing policy leave many African-American families living?

2. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

3. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?

4. What is de facto segregation?

5. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the New Deal affect segregation of housing in the U.S.?

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

4. What is blockbusting?

5. How does Rothstein say UCLA students in Westwood, near Los Angeles, got around their neighborhood’s racially restrictive covenants?

6. How does Rothstein say deeds were used as mechanisms of segregation, and how does he say they were backed as de jure segregation?

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

8. Why did Roosevelt’s New Deal leave African Americans behind, according to Rothstein?

9. Where does Rothstein say public housing started in the U.S.?

10. When black families could end up getting mortgages, how does Rothstein say those mortgages affected them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When is The Color of Law most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the audience for The Color of Law? What is the ideal reader for The Color of Law likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 3

Write an evaluative review of The Color of Law. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

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