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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 was the outcome of the Gerald Cohn investigation?
(a) He was imprisoned.
(b) He was driven out of the state.
(c) He was exonerated.
(d) He was blacklisted by the FHA.

2. How does Rothstein characterize the justifications planning committees used for segregation and discrimination when they knew the Constitutional requirement?
(a) Thin veneer of legalese.
(b) Disingenuous misdirection.
(c) Smoke and mirrors.
(d) Thinly-disguised lies.

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

4. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?
(a) Buy second homes.
(b) Afford maintenance.
(c) Add additions to their homes.
(d) Life off one wage-earner.

5. What kind of language did federal documents use to disguise their racial intent?
(a) Lies.
(b) Euphemisms.
(c) Similes.
(d) Malapropisms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?

3. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?

4. When did the U.S. Supreme Court find that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

5. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What problems does Rothstein say developers encountered when they tried to sell to African-American families?

3. What is the distinction Rothstein makes between de jure and de facto segregation?

4. How did the government overcome expense as a barrier to home ownership under Hoover?

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

6. How does Rothstein circumvent the argument that racially restrictive covenants and exclusionary zoning ordinances were private agreements?

7. What strategies would blockbusters use to create panic in white families?

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

9. How do the political parties that operated in America in the late 1800s correspond to today’s political parties?

10. Why does Rothstein say that he started his book in San Francisco Bay?

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