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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. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
2. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
3. What does Rothstein say the Department of Housing and Urban Development do when the Supreme Court delivered a 1971 decision that said they had to construct projects in predominantly-white neighborhoods?
4. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
5. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rothstein say blacks were prevented from voting in South Carolina in 1876?
2. What does Rothstein cite as evidence that the government is obligated to remedy segregation?
3. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s Buchanan decision in 1917?
4. What backing does Rothstein say the FHA presented to support its claim that African Americans lowered property values?
5. How did towns and developments find ways around the Buchanan decision?
6. How do the political parties that operated in America in the late 1800s correspond to today’s political parties?
7. What does Rothstein say the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded about the American government’s role in creating segregation?
8. What does Rothstein say the purpose of his book is?
9. How was housing policy affected by the 1968 Jones decision?
10. What effect does Rothstein say Woodrow Wilson had on integration in the U.S. government?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Identify the most important plot points in The Color of Law. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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