Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was a police action in April of 1968 characterized by observers?
(a) The unattached Kennedy delegates inspire political activists of all types to go to Chicago to demonstrate.
(b) The threats of McCarthy supporters is discounted as an easily handled threat.
(c) The demands of African-American delegates are considered seriously by the Democrat Convention Platform Committee.
(d) It is called a police riot.

2. What defined the geographic areas of Chicago?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Ethnicity.
(c) Political affiliations.
(d) Proximity to Lake Michigan.

3. How did the press handle the April event?
(a) Not many reporters were assigned to the peace march, so it was overlooked.
(b) Mid-Western news agencies became weary of antiwar protestors and began connecting them with Communist front groups.
(c) McCarthy supporters were characterized as a fringe, single issue caucus with no real political influence.
(d) The national news agencies began putting increased attention on African-American demands after Dr. King's assassination.

4. What was the result of Richard Daley's hard work with the Democratic Central Committee?
(a) Street repairs for Chicago received sufficient funding.
(b) Crime was reduced dramatically.
(c) Chicago became the model of political efficiency.
(d) Influence of Republicans was almost eliminated.

5. What caused an outbreak of fires and looting on Chicago's West Side African-American neighborhoods during Richard Daley's fourth term?
(a) The assassination of Martin Luther King.
(b) The retirement of Police Chief Orlando Wilson.
(c) Increased police abuse after the retirement of Police Chief Orlando Wilson.
(d) Daley ordering water to be cut off from fire hydrants in the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did a particular important figure frustrate Richard Daley during the period of protests against segregated neighborhoods?

2. What was Richard Daley's advice to city officials getting money on the sly?

3. How old was Richard Daley when he became a precinct captain for a South Side ward?

4. What did Richard Daley persist in calling Chicago O'Hare International Airport?

5. What made the Cook County Democratic Central Committee so powerful?

(see the answer key)

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