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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Reign of Terror.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Racially restrictive covenants.

2. What percentage of black families’ homes were governed by the type of sale Rothstein describes here where black families bought from blockbusters?
(a) 85%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 40%.

3. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1933.

4. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?
(a) Relocating communities.
(b) Preserving communities.
(c) Integrating communities.
(d) Segregating communities.

5. What does Rothstein say the FHA’s appraisal standards included?
(a) A fair share requirement.
(b) A whites-only requirements.
(c) A reparations requirement.
(d) An integration requirement.

6. What turmoil does Rothstein say led him to consider writing this book?
(a) Riots in Ferguson.
(b) Police killings of blacks in Baltimore.
(c) White supremacists’ murders of black people.
(d) Los Angeles race riots.

7. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Establish racial neighborhood zones.
(b) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.
(c) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.
(d) Push for integration in neighborhoods.

8. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?
(a) Race panicking.
(b) Relocation.
(c) Blockbusting.
(d) Slum clearing.

9. Who does Rothstein say was the only one who had standing to enforce a racially restrictive covenant?
(a) The community.
(b) The homeowners’ association.
(c) The local government.
(d) The previous owner.

10. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) Protection for the powerless.
(b) Return to places of origin.
(c) A fair society.
(d) Reparations.

11. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?
(a) Poverty.
(b) History.
(c) Racial strife.
(d) Political powerlessness.

12. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1988.
(c) 2004.
(d) 1972.

13. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1876.

14. What does Rothstein say was behind the fear of property values falling?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Racism.
(c) Fear of contagion.
(d) Fear of violence.

15. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?
(a) Crime.
(b) Crowded homes.
(c) Poor educational opportunities.
(d) Drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rothstein say the Mereday family did not apply for mortgages?

2. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

3. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?

5. Whose administration turned racially restrictive covenants into a legal requirement for mortgages?

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